California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Commercial High School, Los Angeles, ca.1908

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Exterior view of the Commercial High School, Los Angeles, ca.1908

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Photograph of the exterior view of the Commercial High School [on Fort Moore Hill, next to Red Brick High School?], Los Angeles, ca.1908. The school is about three-stories tall and features numerous rectangular windows on each floor and a cornice that goes around the building, just below the roof. A flag stands at the peak of the tower, at left. Utility lines line the dirt road in front of the building.

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Title Exterior view of the Commercial High School, Los Angeles, ca.1908

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1908

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 1908

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-m4635

Identifier 8363 (accession number), CHS-8363 (call number), CHS-8363 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4962 (legacy record id), chs-m4635 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4732 (legacy record id), 1-18- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4962

Unique identifier UC127537

Legacy Identifier CHS-8363.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 40.6 cm at 300dpi

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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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