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Title	Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1900
Description	Photograph of the front of the Mission San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, Arizona, ca.1900. Two towers flank the main entrance. The one on the left is whiter than the one on the right and has a dome and a cross on top unlike the one on the right. Behind part of the main dome on the church is visible. The surrounding land is barren. No people are in the image.; "Nothing quite like it may be seen in any part of our rather large slice of the North American continent, this annual pilgrimage of the Papago Indians of Arizona to that white shrine in the desert, the mission church of San Xavier del Bac, five miles south of Tucson..." -- newspaper clipping.
Subject	San Xavier del Bac Mission; Missions -- Arizona -- San Xavier del Baco; Arizona; Mission San Xavier Del Bac (Tucson, Arizona)
Subject (adlf)	religious facilities
Subject (lcsh)	Missions, Spanish
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Tucson
Geographic subject (county)	Pima
Geographic subject (state)	Arizona
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1900
Photographer	Thresher, George P.
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1900
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Accession number	800
Call number	CHS-800
Microfiche number	1-151-
Legacy record ID	chs-m14677
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
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-800
Archival file	chs_Volume90/CHS-800.tiff

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