California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of the Los Angeles County Court House on Poundcake Hill, 1906

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View of the Los Angeles County Court House on Poundcake Hill, 1906

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Photograph of a view of the Los Angeles County Court House on Poundcake Hill, 1906. The courthouse, which was built in 1888 and demolished 1933, stands at left. It is a massive stone building with a large rectangular clock tower at center. Its walls are decorated with several columns and towers, and arch-shaped windows can be seen along its perimeter. An American flag flies from the top of the tower. Several other three- and four-story buildings can be seen packed closely together in the foreground at right. Caption below the image reads: "As it is Today / The Court House Detnention Home in foreground. To the right the Bullard Block.".

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Title View of the Los Angeles County Court House on Poundcake Hill, 1906

Subject court houses (adlf), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- County Court House (file heading), Los Angeles County Court House (subject), Public buildings (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway and Spring Street at Temple Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1906

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 1906

Creator Graham (photographer), Thorpe (engraver)

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-m1871

Identifier 14521 (accession number), CHS-14521 (call number), CHS-14521 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2724 (legacy record id), chs-m1871 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-1923 (legacy record id), 1-63- (microfiche number), USC (project), 40 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2724

Unique identifier UC116778

Legacy Identifier CHS-14521.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.6 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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