California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting "Hanging the Mission Bell", depicting a friar and young men doing so, ca.1900

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Painting "Hanging the Mission Bell", depicting a friar and young men doing so, ca.1900

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Photograph of a painting "Hanging the Mission Bell", depicting a friar and young men doing so, ca.1900. The friar stands at the top of the scaffolding to the right, supervising the work. He holds on to the rail with his left hand, pointing with the other while three young men position the bell. Two of the men are pictured on a ladder in the foreground, tugging a pulley rope. The third is pictured on the scaffolding to the left, adjusting the bell by hand. Painting in Mission Inn, Riverside by Geo Melville Stone.

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Title Painting "Hanging the Mission Bell", depicting a friar and young men doing so, ca.1900

Subject Bells (lcsh), Missions -- Bells (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Stone, George Melville (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Stone, George Melville (artist)

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-m13918

Identifier 7758 (accession number), CHS-7758 (call number), CHS-7758 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13391 (legacy record id), chs-m13918 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14074 (legacy record id), 1-150- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13391

Unique identifier UC137556

Legacy Identifier CHS-7758.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.5 in × 18.5 in at 300dpi
31.9 cm × 47.1 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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