California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Interior view of the church at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, Mission Hills, California, ca.1886

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Interior view of the church at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, Mission Hills, California, ca.1886

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Photograph of the interior view of the church at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, Mission Hills, California, ca.1886. The church features a 20-25 feet tall ceiling and walls with large arched recesses and supporting buttresses. A majority of the roof has collapsed or deteriorated allowing sunshine to seep through its large holes. Nature is reclaiming its territory by sprouting wild grass and bushes inside the structure. A priest stands near a large doorway. The ground is littered with rocks, twigs and adobe bricks.

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Title Interior view of the church at Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, Mission Hills, California, ca.1886

Subject Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Fernando Rey de Espana Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Mission Hills (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 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 1886

Creator James, G.W. (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-m17507

Identifier 5886 (accession number), CHS-5886 (call number), CHS-5886 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17499 (legacy record id), chs-m17507 (legacy record id), 1-130-37 (microfiche number), 1-49- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17499

Unique identifier UC142726

Legacy Identifier CHS-5886.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.9 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
37.8 cm × 47.4 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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