Exterior view of Long Beach High School, 1906

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Photograph of an exterior view of Long Beach High School, 1906. The Mission-style school can be seen at center. It is a three-story structure with large archways leading to doors on the first floor. The walls are light-colored and covered with spackle, while the roof is covered with terracotta tile. A large rectangular tower can be seen on the corner of he building at right and is topped with a tall dome. In the foreground, a large grassy yard can be seen. Several young trees are visible, and an unpaved road crosses the image in the foreground.

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Title Exterior view of Long Beach High School, 1906

Subject educational facilities (adlf), High schools (lcsh), Long Beach High School (subject), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- Schools (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Long Beach (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

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 1906

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-m5910

Identifier 32808 (accession number), CHS-32808 (call number), CHS-32808 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5921 (legacy record id), chs-m5910 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6018 (legacy record id), 1-32-147 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5921

Unique identifier UC127612

Legacy Identifier CHS-32808.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.5 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
57.2 cm × 42.2 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

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