View of the Mission San Diego Alcala, seen from the rear of the bell tower, 1898

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Photograph of a view of the Mission San Diego Alcala, seen from the rear of the bell tower, 1898. A small picket fence is visible cutting into the image from the left, attaching itself to the bottom of the adobe bell tower which is visible to the right. At center, the chapel of the mission is open, its walls having crumbled, leaving on the the facade and a single load-bearing wall. The bell tower is shorter than this two-story structure, little more than a brick pedestal for the single bell which appears unscathed. The silhouettes of small plants can be seen growing against the fence. A large sand drift rises up from the left of center to swallow some of the debris surrounding the bell tower.

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Title View of the Mission San Diego Alcala, seen from the rear of the bell tower, 1898

Subject Missions -- Mission San Diego Alcala (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Diego Alcala Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 16 cm. (aacr2), 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 1898

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-m19441

Identifier 12030 (accession number), CHS-12030 (call number), CHS-12030 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19337 (legacy record id), chs-m19441 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14081 (legacy record id), 1-128-55 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19337

Unique identifier UC137320

Legacy Identifier CHS-12030.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.7 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
42.5 cm × 33.9 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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