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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875
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Panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875
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Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875 . The two-story school building is shown at center, topped by a squat clock tower. Short posts are placed at regular intervals around the bare flat top of the hill. The distant building with many windows, and a raised, arched pediment, discernible just over halfway between the high school and the left edge of the photo, is the Pico House, with the Merced Theater (the taller building to its right) - both in the Plaza area. The single-story white building with three windows, just to the left of the high school, is the First Congregational Church at its initial location on New High Street north of Temple Street. The three story structure to the right of the school is the northernmost building of the Temple Block (where Main, Spring and Temple Streets converge). The white building with six windows located between the Temple Block and the high school is the Downey Block, at Main and Temple Streets. Sonora Town (the area north of Fort Moore Hill, and including the area north and west of the Plaza) can be seen in the background, at left.
Asset Metadata
Title
Panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875
Subject
buildings
(adlf),
cities
(adlf),
Los Angeles City -- Sonora Town -- General
(file heading),
Plazas
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Sonora Town
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1870/1880
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1870/1880
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4925
Identifier
7036 (
accession number
), CHS-7036 (
call number
), CHS-7036 (
filename
), isla id: S-2185 (
identifying number
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-25382 (
legacy record id
), chs-m4925 (
legacy record id
), USC-0-1-1-5023 (
legacy record id
), 1-5-66 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
25382
Unique identifier
UC128712
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7036.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.6 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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