California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Teachers and students of the Florence School, 1895

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Teachers and students of the Florence School, 1895

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Photograph of the teachers and students of the Florence School, 1895. There are about seventy people in the picture, including two women who are presumably teachers; one of the teachers is Miss Mary Serain (Sevain? or Swain?). They are posed in front of a building with two tall windows with open shutters and four glass panes; the window on the right is open. There are steps on the left side of the building that lead up to a door. The walls of the building are covered in wooden siding.

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Title Teachers and students of the Florence School, 1895

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895

Subject educational facilities (adlf), Florence School (subject), Los Angeles County -- Florence School (file heading), Schools (lcsh), Serain, Mary (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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)

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-m18585

Identifier 9781 (accession number), CHS-9781 (call number), CHS-9781 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18493 (legacy record id), chs-m18585 (legacy record id), 1-18-111 (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18493

Unique identifier UC136160

Legacy Identifier CHS-9781.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.4 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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