California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of John O. Forester holding a Mexican poncho once worn by grandfather Don Juan Forster of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1930

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Portrait of John O. Forester holding a Mexican poncho once worn by grandfather Don Juan Forster of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1930

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Photographic portrait of John O. Forster holding a Mexican poncho once worn by grandfather Don Juan Forster of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1930. The man is at center and is holding the long poncho at left. The poncho is intricately decorated with vertical stripes on the body and a diamond pattern near the neck. The man holding it is wearing light pants and a light shirt and has light hair. He is standing in front of a stucco archway leading to a rectangular door. A large plant is at left and a pot is in the background at right. Don Juan's grandson, John O. Forster, gained possession of the poncho after his grandfather.

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Title Portrait of John O. Forester holding a Mexican poncho once worn by grandfather Don Juan Forster of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1930

Subject Clothing and dress (lcsh), Forster, Don Juan (subject), Forster, John O. (subject), Indians of North America (lcsh), Missions -- Mission San Juan Capistrano (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), Orange County -- San Juan Capistrano -- General (file heading), residential sites (adlf), San Juan Capistrano Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Orange (counties), San Juan Capistrano (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), 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 1930

Contributor Stephenson, T.E. (donor)

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-m7817

Identifier 11893 (accession number), CHS-11893 (call number), CHS-11893 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8051 (legacy record id), chs-m7817 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14089 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7947 (legacy record id), 1-137-145 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8051

Unique identifier UC124346

Legacy Identifier CHS-11893.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.8 in × 23.7 in at 300dpi
45.2 cm × 60.2 cm at 300dpi

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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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