L.A. High School atop Poundcake Hill, with the Jones Block in the foreground, in an image cropped from a stereographic photo card.....undated but likely about 1875.
There's two striped poles in front of the saloon....in the Old West barbers would sometimes ply their trade out of chairs set up in the rear of such establishments....the sign is promoting something for .25 cents, possibly "Shave and a Haircut two bits".....
The printing building housed the presses for the L.A. Daily Herald (est. 1873), the first paper in the city to utilize the steam powered rotary press....the machine revolutionized the newspaper industry....
A later photo of the Jones Block and school, c. 1880-1885....
Back in 2011 e_r posted a similar photo of the high school, that post included a lovely 1938 letter from a Mrs. Hamilton, wherein she recalled the difficulty of ascending to the school when the weather turned inclement, the post is here.....
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...ll#post5134679
The original stereo card....
Additional L.A. stereo images out of this collection at U.C. Berkeley....
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=...DLos%20angeles