Interior view showing electric bells behind a door in the Winchester "Mystery" House, Santa Clara, California, 1923

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Title	Interior view showing electric bells behind a door in the Winchester "Mystery" House, Santa Clara, California, 1923
Description	Photograph of an interior view showing electric bells behind a door in the Winchester "Mystery" House, Santa Clara (near San Jose), California, 1923. The open door reveals the plaster lathing from the wall of an adjacent room and the wiring for electric bells installed on the wall. A series of about 5 buttons beside the door jamb probably ring the bells. The surrounding wall is covered with a wallpaper decorated with cornucopies, fruits and vegetables. An arts and crafts type of wallpaper runs in a strip around the top of the walls. Some of the panels[?] in the ceiling appear to be in a state of disrepair. There is no cornice. Part of another wood panelled door is visible at right.
Subject	Winchester "Mystery" House; Winchester Home; Winchester Spirit House
Subject (adlf)	housing areas
Subject (file heading)	Santa Clara County -- Winchester "Mystery" House
Subject (lcsh)	Architecture
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	San Jose
Geographic subject (county)	Santa Clara
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1923
Photographer	Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1923
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 postcard : photoprint, b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.; 3 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 12 x 15 cm., 18 x 13 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints postcards photographs
Accession number	2942
Call number	CHS-2942
Microfiche number	1-51-
Legacy record ID	chs-m15774; USC-1-1-1-14361
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-2942
Archival file	chs_Volume93/CHS-2942.tiff

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