California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Group portrait of attendees at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Teachers' Institute at the State Normal School building, 1886

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Group portrait of attendees at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Teachers' Institute at the State Normal School building, 1886

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Photograph of a group portrait of attendees at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Teachers' Institute at the State Normal School building, 1886. About 45 people are standing, kneeling or sitting in front of the brick building behind them. The women can be seen wearing dark colored dresses with high necks. The men are mostly standing in the back and wear suits, although two men can be seen seated at left and right. Two women are facing each other to the left of center in the second row.

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Title Group portrait of attendees at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Teachers' Institute at the State Normal School building, 1886

Subject educational facilities (adlf), Los Angeles City Teachers' Institute (subject), Meetings (lcsh), Portraits -- Group -- School (file heading), Schools (lcsh), State Normal School (subject), Teachers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 5th Street & Grand Avenue (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (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 1886

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13210

Identifier 1444 (accession number), CHS-1444 (call number), CHS-1444 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12721 (legacy record id), chs-m13210 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13363 (legacy record id), 1-18-8 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12721

Unique identifier UC135263

Legacy Identifier CHS-1444.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 35.3 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

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