Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of the State Normal School on Fifth Street, Los Angeles, immediately after its construction.
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Manuscripts
This manuscript provides information concerning the State Normal School in Los Angeles, which was located at the southwest corner of Charity Street (renamed Grand Street in 1887) and Fifth Street. This manuscript includes three main sections. The first section titled, "Where We Are Located," is derived from a Los Angeles Daily Herald article which was originally published on May 24, 1889. This section describes the precise geographic coordinates of the State Normal School in Los Angeles. The second section is titled, "State Normal School. January 23, 1886," and this portion details the grading of the grounds for this building's lot. The third section is titled, "Normal School at Los Angeles, Cal." This third section briefly describes the origin of the Normal School in Los Angeles. In 1881, the California State Legislature established the school as a branch of the State Normal School of San José. The school opened on August 29, 1882.
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Visual Materials
View of the Spring Street elementary school in the 500 block of South Spring Street between Fifth Street and Sixth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with a picket fence and sign on the building reading "Public School 1884."
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Manuscripts
Normal School: Plan for Grading (Map 1) [west of Charity St., south of Fifth St., showing structures and surface detail] [7 pieces, also including: "Plan for Grading Normal School Grounds, showing cutting and filling," with structures and surface detail, Feb. 25, 1886; "Normal School Entrance at Charity Street," drawing no. 1 on specifications of walls, Mar. 26, 1886; drawing no. 2, specification of walls, State Normal School, with sections, elevations, and plan views of walls and gates, Mar. 26, 1886; centerline of driveway for State Normal School, Apr. 20, 1886; State Normal School profiles, Apr. 19, 1886; State Normal School, south line of Fifth St. between Hope and Charity St., west line of Charity St. south of Fifth St. (profile and plan), Apr. 19, 1886]
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Visual Materials
Contents: State Normal School (San Jose, California); San Jose Hall of Justice (California). Annotations on the stereographs note "Hardy 1945."
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Visual Materials
View of the Los Angeles High School on Poundcake Hill as seen looking up from Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with business storefronts in the foreground and a sign for “Preuss and Pironi Drugs and Medicine” (23 Spring Street) in the foreground.
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