Panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875

Photograph of a panoramic view of Los Angeles showing the first high school atop Pouncake (later Court) Hill, ca.1875 . The two-story school building is shown at center, topped by a squat clock tower. Short posts are placed at regular intervals around the bare flat top of the hill. The distant building with many windows, and a raised, arched pediment, discernible just over halfway between the high school and the left edge of the photo, is the Pico House, with the Merced Theater (the taller building to its right) - both in the Plaza area. The single-story white building with three windows, just to the left of the high school, is the First Congregational Church at its initial location on New High Street north of Temple Street. The three story structure to the right of the school is the northernmost building of the Temple Block (where Main, Spring and Temple Streets converge). The white building with six windows located between the Temple Block and the high school is the Downey Block, at Main and Temple Streets. Sonora Town (the area north of Fort Moore Hill, and including the area north and west of the Plaza) can be seen in the background, at left.