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Title: Pasadena first school house down town
Alternative Title: Colorado St. Between Raymond & Fair Oaks.
Creator: Jarvis (Firm : Pasadena, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
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Description: A school building stands alone amid open land and agricultural fields at Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, California. Dozens of school children stand outside the front. A group of men and a few women stand at the entrance of building.
Title and alt-title transcribed from back of photo-mount. Date approximated by cataloger based on general history of building and photographer; the Pasadena Central School was sold in 1886, and the Jarvis studio operated from about 1886 until 1894. Handwritten along left and bottom edges of photo-mount: "Members of the Shakespeare Club. / Colorado St. Between Raymond & Fair Oaks. Bankers and big 'Butter and egg men.'"
Type: image
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 13 x 21 cm (cabinet format)
Identifier: photPF
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/13785
Subject: School buildings--California--Pasadena
School children--California--Pasadena
Cabinet photographs. (aat)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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