Young girls sitting on a porch with three men at the Theosophical Institute in Point Loma, ca.1902

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Photograph of young girls sitting on a porch with three men at the Theosophical Institute in Point Loma, ca.1902. Two men with mustaches and wearing suits are visible sitting on a covered porch, while a third man stands behind them. Ten young girls are visible standing around the men or on their laps. Five more young girls can be seen sitting on the ground in front of the porch. The girls all wear dresses of various patterns, while windows are visible on the building under the porch. Photoprint reads: "Lotus Buds: The name given by the Theosophists at Point Loma to their children of such age".

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Title Young girls sitting on a porch with three men at the Theosophical Institute in Point Loma, ca.1902

Subject buildings (adlf), San Diego County -- Point Loma -- Theosophical Institute (file heading), Schools (lcsh), Theosophical Institute (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Point Loma (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1902

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 16 cm. (aacr2), 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 1902

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-m8992

Identifier 43239 (accession number), CHS-43239 (call number), CHS-43239 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9349 (legacy record id), chs-m8992 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9128 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9349

Unique identifier UC138880

Legacy Identifier CHS-43239.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 23.0 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 58.4 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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