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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Los Angeles' first high school on Poundcake Hill, looking north from the Nadeau Hotel, ca.1884
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Los Angeles' first high school on Poundcake Hill, looking north from the Nadeau Hotel, ca.1884
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Description
Photograph of Los Angeles' first high school on Poundcake Hill, looking north from the Nadeau Hotel, ca.1884. The picture is framed in an oval circumscription. The tree-covered hill with the school on it is in the background, rising above the residential neighborhood in the foreground. The buildings in this neighborhood are mostly small houses, although there is a moderately large brick building at right. There is a grocery cart in the yard of one of the houses. The school is a two story brick structure with a cupola on top.
Asset Metadata
Title
Los Angeles' first high school on Poundcake Hill, looking north from the Nadeau Hotel, ca.1884
Subject
educational facilities
(adlf),
Los Angeles -- General views (1880)
(file heading),
Views
(lcsh)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Spring Street and 1st Street
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1884
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
negatives (photographic)
(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
1884
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-m2540
Identifier
9940 (
accession number
), CHS-9940 (
call number
), CHS-9940 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-3454 (
legacy record id
), chs-m2540 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-2602 (
legacy record id
), 1-9-134 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
3454
Unique identifier
UC120745
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9940.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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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