California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Earthquake damage in Huntington Park, showing the high school, ca.1933

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Earthquake damage in Huntington Park, showing the high school, ca.1933

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Photograph of the Huntington Park High School, showing earthquake damage, ca.1933. People stand on the grass yard in the left foreground along with two large trees and several small bushes. The crumbled, brick school stands at right with most of its front exterior walls in piles on the ground.

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Title Earthquake damage in Huntington Park, showing the high school, ca.1933

Subject Earthquakes (lcsh), educational facilities (adlf), High schools (lcsh), Huntington Park High School (subject), Los Angeles County -- Huntington Park (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1933

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w (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 1933

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5734

Identifier 44961 (accession number), CHS-44961 (call number), CHS-44961 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5762 (legacy record id), chs-m5734 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5854 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5856 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5762

Unique identifier UC127643

Legacy Identifier CHS-44961.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.9 in × 18.4 in at 300dpi
60.7 cm × 46.9 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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