Painting of Mission Santa Clara by Andrew P. Hill as it appeared in 1849, 1880

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Photograph of a painting of Mission Santa Clara by Andrew P. Hill as it appeared in 1849, 1880. The church, at right, has a tall square bell tower at its left corner. A low iron fence encloses the small yard in front of the main entry. A long low building extends as a wing from the church to the left. People are gathered near the fence in front of the church. The foreground illustrates horsemen riding around in the wide-open space front of the church. An ox is hauling a wagon with six passengers. A large cross is mounted on a platform on the rocky area at left.; "It was the intention of the padres to found another mission in pretty meadowland a few miles south of San Francisco Bay as soon as the San Francisco mission was well established. The mission of Santa Clara indeed was established only three months later on January 12, 1777. To the dismay of the missionaries, in six more months there arrived a large group of colonists from Mexico. The padres did their best to keep the mission and the pueblo separated, well knowing the detrimental influence of civilians on the neophytes. Ultimately, mission and pueblo grew into the twin cities of Santa Clara and San Jose. In 1784 the mission had to be abandoned because of damage from a great flood. A new site on higher ground was soon occupied, with the help of skilled artisans from the pueblo whose work gave the buildings a much more professional appearance. Yet this skill came to naught in 1818 when an earthquake effectively destroyed the mission again. With seemingly boundless energy the padres built a third time, with everything completed by 1825." -- unknown author.; "Natural disasters did not prevent Mission Santa Clara from achieving great prosperity, being exceeded at the time only by San Gabriel in the importance of its possessions. Under Mexican authority mission activity disappeared, however. In 1851 the property was given to the Jesuits who founded, and still maintain, the University of Santa Clara on the old mission site. Today a section of garden wall on the campus is all that remains of original mission buildings. Today's university chapel was built after the fire of 1926, its design a faithful reproduction of the old mission church of a century earlier. The bell tower contains the original bells sent from Spain so long ago." -- unknown author.

Asset Metadata

Title Painting of Mission Santa Clara by Andrew P. Hill as it appeared in 1849, 1880

Subject Mission Santa Clara de Asis (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Clara de Asis Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Clara (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1880

Type images

Format 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 15 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), 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 1880

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17410

Identifier 5526 (accession number), CHS-5526 (call number), CHS-5526 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17407 (legacy record id), chs-m17410 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14096 (legacy record id), 1-155- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17407

Unique identifier UC142487

Legacy Identifier CHS-5526.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

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

Date Created 1860/1960

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

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