California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

A group of children outside an early private school situated at the Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1884

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A group of children outside an early private school situated at the Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1884

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Photograph of a group of children outside an early private school situated at the Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1884. A group comprised of sixteen boys and girls stands on the shaded porch of a plank house. The tallest of the boys stands to the right with his hand on a shorter boy's shoulder. To the immediate left of him, another boy stands, holding a cane, in front of which a small girl who is not wearing shoes has had her face blurred. The girl to the extreme left of the group is the only apparent one whose dress has an apparent decorative pattern on it. Picture file card reads: "Although schools were rare, books costly, and the Californians indifferent to education in early times, San Fernando proudly claims the possession of a school more than eighty years ago. Señorita Concepcion Arguello, a young Spanish girl preparing to be a nun, taught a private school at the Mission in about 1840. The young daughters of the majordomo and others of the Spanish race attended, no Indians being permitted to enter. The regalia of a nun worn by the young teacher gives a quaint old-world atmosphere to this first school in San Fernando. After a lapse of nearly twenty years, the first public school was organized at Lopez Station. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lopez having enjoyed the best educational advantages of their time, under the instruction of Don Coronel, were earnest advocates of education. It was due to their efforts that a school was established. The schoolhouse was an adobe built by Mr. Lopez for a stage house, though never used as such. There were twenty-five children to attend the school. Mrs. Catherine Carter was the first teacher. She was paid sixty dollars a month. The school was partly public and partly subscription; if the public treasury ran low the parents pledged themselves to make it up. It was taught in English. The teacher boarded with Mrs. Lopez for twenty-six years; as long as the school remained. The Trustees were George Rice, Geronimo Lopez, and Mr. Robinson. The proportions of the district were awe inspiring, bounded by the sea on the West and limited by the mountains on the East. The school progressed so well that after fourteen years a new schoolhouse was deemed necessary, which was built at Lopez Station and used until 1884."; The children are identified as: (Upper Row, Left to Right) Erlinda Lopez De Alexander, Issac Renaldi, Albert Oliver, Saragosa Grace Leonard (Teacher), Jack Jenifer(?), Catarina Lopez De Millen, Ramona Lopez De Shang, Grace Lopez De Wilson, Stephen Lopez, William H. Lopez. (Lower Row, Left to Right) Rubina Lopez De Dominguez, Julian Renaldi, George Jenifer(?), Jerome Durm, Otto Renaldi.

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Title A group of children outside an early private school situated at the Mission, San Fernando Valley, California, ca.1884

Subject Adobe brick (lcsh), Britton, Saragosa Lopez (subject), Children (lcsh), Durm, Jerome (subject), educational facilities (adlf), Jenifer, George (subject), Jenifer, Jack (subject), Leonard, Grace (subject), Lopez de Alexander, Erlinda (subject), Lopez de Dominguez, Rubina (subject), Lopez de Millen, Catarina (subject), Lopez de Shang, Ramona (subject), Lopez de Wilson, Grace (subject), Lopez School (subject), Lopez, Stephen (subject), Lopez, William H. (subject), Los Angeles -- San Fernando Valley -- General (file heading), Mexican Americans (lcsh), Oliver, Albert (subject), Portraits -- Group -- School (file heading), Renaldi, Isaac (subject), Renaldi, Julian (subject), Renaldi, Otto (subject), Schools (lcsh), Students (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Lopez toll road west of San Fernando Mission (roadway), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1884

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1884

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m4317

Identifier 6640 (accession number), CHS-6640 (call number), CHS-6640 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4915 (legacy record id), chs-m4317 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13350 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4408 (legacy record id), 1-18-67 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4915

Unique identifier UC120139

Legacy Identifier CHS-6640.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.7 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
45.0 cm × 34.8 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

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