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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885
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Portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885
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Description
Photographic portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885. The class is shown in a composite shot. On the bottom, the class poses in four rows outside the high school's clapboarded side. On the top, a distant shot of the entire school is shown on Poundcake hill. The school is two stories tall with a small clock tower extending from the center of its roof. Below, the class is seated in the two front rows, the front-most boys seated on the ground, while the girls behind them appear to be seated on chairs. The rest stand.; The names from left to right are; First Row: Fred Sterns, and unidentified student, George A. Fitch, Joe Ketchum, Paul Frebe, and a second unidentified student. Second Row: Bessie Harris, Babel Otis, Edith Field, Mercy Abbot, Mamie Norton, Hattie Boquest, and Lillian Thurston. Third Row: Warran Hopperstead, an unidentified student, Lavis LaBarea, T. Orella, Proffessor Bram, Otto Weid, Fred Martin, Harry Stausberry. Back row: (?) Leonis, Willie Gard, Leon Levy, an unidentified student, Vincent Guercio and Norman Martin.
Asset Metadata
Title
Portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885
Subject
Abbott, Mercy
(subject),
Boquest, Hattie
(subject),
Bray, Professor
(subject),
educational facilities
(adlf),
Field, Edith
(subject),
Fitch, George
(subject),
Freeby, Paul
(subject),
Gard, Willie
(subject),
Guerico, Vincent
(subject),
Harris, Bessie
(subject),
Hofferstead, Warren
(subject),
Ketchum, Joe
(subject),
LaBarca, Louis
(subject),
Leonis
(subject),
Levy, Leon
(subject),
Los Angeles High School
(subject),
Martin, Fred
(subject),
Martin, Norman
(subject),
Norton, Marmie
(subject),
Orella, F.
(subject),
Otis, Mabel
(subject),
Portraits -- Group -- School
(file heading),
Schools
(lcsh),
Stansbury, Harry
(subject),
Stearns, Fred
(subject),
Students
(lcsh),
Thurston, Lillian
(subject),
Weid, Otto
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
buildings: Los Angeles High School
(geographic subject),
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1885
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(aat)
Source
California Historical Society
(contributing entity),
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
(collection),
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
(subcollection)
Date Created
1885
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Copyright
Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.
Access Conditions
Send requests to address or e-mail given
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13176
Identifier
8530 (
accession number
), CHS-8530 (
call number
), CHS-8530 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-12686 (
legacy record id
), chs-m13176 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-13329 (
legacy record id
), 1-18- (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
12686
Unique identifier
UC134928
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8530.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.2 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Description
The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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