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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886
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Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886
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Description
Photograph of the Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886. The two-story schoolhouse, built in 1871, is pictured at center supported on a network of wood scaffolding. A tree stands in front of it to the left, while workers pose both above on the scaffolding and below it. A horse-drawn carriage makes its way past to the left.
Asset Metadata
Title
Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886
Subject
educational facilities
(adlf),
High schools
(lcsh),
Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Schools -- High Schools -- Los Angeles High School
(file heading),
Los Angeles High School
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Los Angeles downtown
(city or populated place),
Temple Street & North Broadway
(roadway),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1886
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
photographs
(aat),
transparencies
(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
1886
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-m4410
Identifier
7318 (
accession number
), CHS-7318 (
call number
), CHS-7318 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-4819 (
legacy record id
), chs-m4410 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-4505 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
4819
Unique identifier
UC120198
Legacy Identifier
CHS-7318.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.8 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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