California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of El Cuartel, the oldest adobe building in Santa Barbara, ca.1940

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Exterior view of El Cuartel, the oldest adobe building in Santa Barbara, ca.1940

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Photograph of an exterior view of El Cuartel, the oldest adobe building in Santa Barbara, ca.1940. The north facade of the building can be seen at right, while an arched gate can be seen at center. Vines can be seen growing over the wall which runs from the gate to the left, while a late 1930's automobile can be seen parked on the street at left. Trees and power lines are visible in the background. Originally a guard house at Royal Presidio, later home of the Valenzuela family. Caption on back, "Santa Barbara - Adobe home said to have been home of one of the officers of the Presidio." An earlier record identifies the home as the "oldest remaining building at Santa Barbara Presidio".

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Title Exterior view of El Cuartel, the oldest adobe building in Santa Barbara, ca.1940

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1940

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Automobiles (lcsh), buildings (adlf), Military (lcsh), Santa Barbara County -- Santa Barbara -- Architecture -- Domestic -- Adobes (file heading), Santa Barbara County -- Santa Barbara -- Presidio (file heading), Valenzuela Family (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 100 block of East Canon Perdido Street (roadway), California (states), Santa Barbara (city or populated place), Santa Barbara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

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-m7559

Identifier 12184 (accession number), CHS-12184 (call number), CHS-12184 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7689 (legacy record id), chs-m7559 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10043 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7687 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7689

Unique identifier UC123436

Legacy Identifier CHS-12184.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.6 in × 16.6 in at 300dpi
52.4 cm × 42.2 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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