California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Mission Santa Barbara, showing door and window of church from cemetery, California, 1898

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Mission Santa Barbara, showing door and window of church from cemetery, California, 1898

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Photograph of Mission Santa Barbara, showing door and window of church from cemetery, California, 1898. In the background at center, a large wall of the church can be seen. Over the arched door below the window, three sets of skull and crossbones can be seen embedded in the wall. The walls of the church are stone and are six feet thick.

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Title Mission Santa Barbara, showing door and window of church from cemetery, California, 1898

Subject Architecture, Spanish colonial (lcsh), Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Mission Santa Barbara (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Barbara Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Barbara (city or populated place), Santa Barbara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 Thresher, George P. (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14400

Identifier 454 (accession number), CHS-454 (call number), CHS-454 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15040 (legacy record id), chs-m14400 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14095 (legacy record id), 1-144-25 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15040

Unique identifier UC137908

Legacy Identifier CHS-454.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.9 cm × 33.7 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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