California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the façade of Mission San Luis Rey, ca.1885

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Exterior view of the façade of Mission San Luis Rey, ca.1885

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Photograph of an exterior view of the façade of Mission San Luis Rey, ca.1885. The main façade of the mission is at center and consists of a tall wall with a single arched doorway in the middle. Above the doorway is a large circular window, and there is a tall bell tower at right. Behind the façade at right is a terracotta roofed building. A low adobe wall extends at right, and at left is a line of open adobe archways. The entire exterior is covered in white spackle that has worn away in some places. There is low grass in front of the mission.

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Title Exterior view of the façade of Mission San Luis Rey, ca.1885

Subject Missions -- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Luis Rey de Francia Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), 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 1885

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Contributor Webb, Mrs. (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19402

Identifier 11273 (accession number), CHS-11273 (call number), CHS-11273 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19300 (legacy record id), chs-m19402 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14091 (legacy record id), 1-140-90 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19300

Unique identifier UC137253

Legacy Identifier CHS-11273.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.3 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
46.5 cm × 33.4 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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