California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Close-up of Father Superior O'Keefe standing in the ruins of the mortuary chapel of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, 1904

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Close-up of Father Superior O'Keefe standing in the ruins of the mortuary chapel of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, 1904

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Photograph of Father Superior O'Keefe standing in the ruins of the mortuary chapel of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, 1904. Portrait from the chest up. He is wearing a Franciscan robe and clutches a book in his left hand against his chest. He has heavy jowls covered with short white stubble and short whispy white hair on his head. He is looking up to his left. Behind and beside him, the underlying stone structure of the walls is visible as the stucco has mostly fallen off.

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Title Close-up of Father Superior O'Keefe standing in the ruins of the mortuary chapel of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, 1904

Subject Men (lcsh), Mission San Luis Rey (subject), Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (subject), Missions -- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Luis Rey de Francia Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 1 photoprint : b&w; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1904

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16645

Identifier 4144 (accession number), CHS-4144 (call number), CHS-4144 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16535 (legacy record id), chs-m16645 (legacy record id), 1-140- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16535

Unique identifier UC141479

Legacy Identifier CHS-4144.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 18.4 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 46.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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