California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Group portrait of the students and teachers of the Dow School in front of the school, September 1886

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Group portrait of the students and teachers of the Dow School in front of the school, September 1886

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Photographic group portrait of the students and teachers of the Dow School in front of the school building, September 1886. Students, ranging in age from young children to young adults, are posed in rows with teachers interspersed in front of a white picket fence that borders the schoolyard. A man with a moustache and an older woman stand at the right edge of the group. The schoolhouse, a two-story clapboard building with a belltower above its entry, sits to the right of center. A few students sit on the turning bar in front of the building. Two large trees are visible, one each at the left and right edges of the image.; Students shown on the turning bar, from left to right, include: Nick Schlegel, John Gray, Allie Ashton,and Dan Whiteman. Persons shown in the rear row, from left to right, include: Miss Sarah Anna Drown and Ross Hanna, teachers; Henry Schlegel, Annie _____, Leona Sarrail, Phillip McAnany, John McAnay, Lula Dosta, Fred Aerick, Minnie Aerick, Henry Ashton, Mamie Dryden, John Leuzinger, Lille Dosta, Mamie Allison, John Aerick, Cora Scott, Emma Dryden, Delia Butterworth, Janet Henderson, and Lille Barron. Middle row, from left to right: Lizzie Wiebking, Jennie McAnany, Flora Barron, Lillie Aerick, Alice White, unknown, unknown, ____ Sarrail, unknown, Douglas Henderson, Bert Dinsmore, Charles Lloyd, James Flanders, Callie Aerick, Will Lloyd, Pierre Revere, and Ernest Schlegl, unknown. Front row: unknown, Annie Schlegel, Henry McAnany, ____ Sarrail, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Willie Henderson, Will Ford, David Henderson, John Schlegel, and unknown.

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Title Group portrait of the students and teachers of the Dow School in front of the school, September 1886

Subject educational facilities (adlf), Los Angeles Dow School (corporate name), Portraits -- Group -- School (file heading), Schools (lcsh), Students (lcsh), Teachers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Normandie Avenue & Vernon Avenue (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1886-09

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 21 x 30 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1886-09

Contributor Wildasin, Magdalena M., June 1978 (contributor)

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-m20689

Identifier 31269 (accession number), CHS-31269 (call number), CHS-31269 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24674 (legacy record id), chs-m20689 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-13353 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-13363 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24674

Unique identifier UC130582

Legacy Identifier CHS-31269.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
50.3 cm × 34.6 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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