California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Los Angeles' first high school on Fort Moore Hill (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill), looking south from Temple Street and Broadway, ca.1875

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Los Angeles' first high school on Fort Moore Hill (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill), looking south from Temple Street and Broadway, ca.1875

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Photograph of Los Angeles' first high school on Fort Moore Hill (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill), looking south from Temple Street and Broadway, ca.1875. The two-story school is pictured at center, behind several clusters of trees. It's clock tower extends from its roof and appears to have no hour or minute hand. The city is visible below the hill in the distance, along with mountains, the bell tower of St. Vibiana Cathedral at 2nd Street and Main Street visible in the background.

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Title Los Angeles' first high school on Fort Moore Hill (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill), looking south from Temple Street and Broadway, ca.1875

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), Downtown Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Temple Street & Broadway (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1870/1880

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 1870/1880

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-m4381

Identifier 7319 (accession number), CHS-7319 (call number), CHS-7319 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4729 (legacy record id), chs-m4381 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4474 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4729

Unique identifier UC120205

Legacy Identifier CHS-7319.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.3 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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