California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Exterior view of the Casa de Rosas School for Young Ladies on the corner of Adams Boulevard and Hoover Street, ca.1905

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Exterior view of the Casa de Rosas School for Young Ladies on the corner of Adams Boulevard and Hoover Street, ca.1905

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Photograph of the street facade of the two-story ivy-covered School for Young Ladies ("Casa de Rosas"), on the corner of Adams Boulevard and Hoover Street, ca.1905. A house covered in ivy appears at center, with two chimneys appearing at different points on its roof. Streetcar tracks appear on the street and power lines are also visible overhead. A sprinkler is watering the lawn on the leftmost corner of the image.

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Title Exterior view of the Casa de Rosas School for Young Ladies on the corner of Adams Boulevard and Hoover Street, ca.1905

Subject buildings (lcsh), educational facilities (adlf), Girls Collegiate School (subject), Los Angeles -- Schools -- Colleges & Universities -- General (file heading), School for Young Ladies (subject), Transportation (lcsh), Universities and colleges (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Hoover Street & Adams Bouldevard (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images, texts

Format 2 photographs : photoprint, glass photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm., 17 x 22 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 1905

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-m4396

Identifier 1755 (accession number), CHS-1755 (call number), CHS-1755 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4804 (legacy record id), chs-m4396 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4490 (legacy record id), 1-18-15 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4804

Unique identifier UC120190

Legacy Identifier CHS-1755.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.1 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.6 cm × 33.2 cm at 300dpi

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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

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