View of Santa Monica looking southwest from the tower of the Academy of Holy Names, ca.1900

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Photograph of a view of Santa Monica looking southwest from the tower of the Academy of Holy Names, ca.1900. One-story houses are visible behind a picket fence on the foreground block to the left of the wide, unpaved street. An intersection is visible farther up, beyond which more two-story craftsman-style houses can be seen. The ocean is visible in the distance.; "The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary had arrived in Santa Monica in July 1899. They opened the Academy of the Holy Names on September 4 of that year in a small frame building on Fourth Street and Arizona. An intense fund-raising drive was launched immediately and a more substantial Academy building was erected in 1900 at Third and Arizona. The dedication of the school on February 22, 1901 was celebrated with a grand parade, fiesta and banquet. Juan Carrillo was parade marshal. Special trains brought guests from Los Angeles." -- unkown author.

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Title View of Santa Monica looking southwest from the tower of the Academy of Holy Names, ca.1900

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1895/1905

Subject Academy of the Holy Names (corporate name), residential sites (adlf), Schools (lcsh), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

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)

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-m17969

Identifier 7470 (accession number), CHS-7470 (call number), CHS-7470 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15706 (legacy record id), chs-m17969 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15706

Unique identifier UC113640

Legacy Identifier CHS-7470.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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