California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Mission Santa Barbara, showing stone aqueduct and vineyard, California, 1898

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Mission Santa Barbara, showing stone aqueduct and vineyard, California, 1898

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Photograph of Mission Santa Barbara, showing stone aqueduct and vineyard, California, 1898. In the foreground at right, the stone aqueduct leading to the vineyard can be seen. The aqueduct consists of two stone walls with a narrow gap in between. The aqueduct brought water to the vineyard from the mountains a distance of over six miles. The vineyard can be seen in the background to the left. Several grape vines can be seen along the trellis. In the extreme background at left, the main body of the church can be seen Adjacent to the church, a stone wall is visible extending to the far left with several trees growing nearby.

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Title Mission Santa Barbara, showing stone aqueduct and vineyard, 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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14411

Identifier 466 (accession number), CHS-466 (call number), CHS-466 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15051 (legacy record id), chs-m14411 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14095 (legacy record id), 1-144-37 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15051

Unique identifier UC137915

Legacy Identifier CHS-466.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.2 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.7 cm × 33.8 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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