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Title
Fort Moore Hill High School (Pound Cake Hill, Signal Hill) being moved across Temple Street and Broadway, Los Angeles, 1886
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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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, build in 1871, is pictured at center elevated by wood scaffolding next to its abandoned hill. A two-story Victorian-style building stands at half its height to the left, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4391
USC-1-1-1-4485 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7317
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4391
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7317.jpg
Subject
High schools
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Schools--High Schools--Los Angeles High School
Los Angeles High School
Educational facilities
Time Period
1886
Place
California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles downtown
Temple Street & Broadway
USA
Source
7317 [Accession number]
CHS-7317 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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