California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Group portrait of the students of the Los Angeles Dow School, 1894(?)

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Group portrait of the students of the Los Angeles Dow School, 1894(?)

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Photographic group portrait of the students of the Los Angeles Dow School, 1894(?). Three rows of school children face the camera, with the children in the first two rows seated in front of the standing children in the third row. An older woman, likely a teacher, stands to the right of the group. The children are posed in front of the window of a clapboard building, likely the school. The Dow School was located at the corner of Normandie Avenue and West Vernon Avenue.

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Title Group portrait of the students of the Los Angeles Dow School, 1894(?)

Subject educational facilities (adlf), Los Angeles Dow School (subject), 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 1894

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)

Date Created 1894

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-m20572

Identifier 31194 (accession number), CHS-31194 (call number), CHS-31194 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-24453 (legacy record id), chs-m20572 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-13366 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 24453

Unique identifier UC130685

Legacy Identifier CHS-31194.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 11.6 in at 300dpi
48.2 cm × 29.4 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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