Exterior view of an old Indian School at Fort Independence, ca.1900

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Photograph of an exterior view of an old Indian School at Fort Independence, ca.1900. A cement staircase on the right leads from the trees to the entrance of the raised wooden building. The door and windows have a lightly-colored trims and the shingled roof has two chimneys on the left as well as two small, covered protrusions in the center and on the right. Tall weeds cover the foreground.; Picture file card reads "This was one of the buildings of Fort Independence barracks for United States soldiers from 1865-1877. This building was later remodeled into a school. Part of the soldiers parade ground, now covered with weeds is seen in the foreground".

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Title Exterior view of an old Indian School at Fort Independence, ca.1900

Subject educational facilities (adlf), Mines and mineral resources (lcsh), Mining -- Inyo County (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Inyo (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1900

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-m20082

Identifier 20329 (accession number), CHS-20329 (call number), CHS-20329 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19899 (legacy record id), chs-m20082 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14145 (legacy record id), 1-112-126 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19899

Unique identifier UC122116

Legacy Identifier CHS-20329.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
51.6 cm × 41.9 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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