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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles showing the first Los Angeles City High School, ca.1872
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Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles showing the first Los Angeles City High School, ca.1872
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Description
Photograph of a panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles showing the first Los Angeles City High School, ca.1872. The two-story school can be seen at center on top of a hill with a tower on top, as viewed on Court House Hill from First Street and Hill Street. Other buildings can be seen behind the school, while hills are visible in the distance. The foreground is covered in brush and slopes downwards slightly.
Asset Metadata
Title
Panoramic view of downtown Los Angeles showing the first Los Angeles City High School, ca.1872
Subject
Broadway
(subject),
educational facilities
(adlf),
High schools
(lcsh),
Los Angeles -- General views (1860-1870)
(file heading),
Los Angeles City High School
(subject),
Schools
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
1st Street
(roadway),
Broadway
(roadway),
California
(states),
Hill Street
(roadway),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1872
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1872
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.
Access Conditions
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2518
Identifier
340 (
accession number
), CHS-340 (
call number
), CHS-340 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3434 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2518 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2580 (
legacy record id
), 1-2-175 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3434
Unique identifier
UC120702
Legacy Identifier
CHS-340.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.9 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
45.5 cm × 34.7 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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