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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Mission San Diego de Alcala, California. Interior of old town chapel, ca.1889
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Mission San Diego de Alcala, California. Interior of old town chapel, ca.1889
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Description
Photograph of the ruin of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), California, ca.1889. Interior of old town chapel (where Ramona was married; Ramona was made famous in the novel of the same name by Helen Hunt Jackson). Pews run up the center of the room towards the altar. Five statues of figures plus a large crucifix are on or near the altar. A tapestry hangs behind. Several framed pictures with crosses on them hang from the side walls.
Asset Metadata
Title
Mission San Diego de Alcala, California. Interior of old town chapel, ca.1889
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Date Created
1889
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)
Temporal Subject
1889
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)
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-m14487
Identifier
556 (
accession number
), CHS-556 (
call number
), CHS-556 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-15127 (
legacy record id
), chs-m14487 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14081 (
legacy record id
), 1-128-8 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
15127
Unique identifier
UC137971
Legacy Identifier
CHS-556.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.1 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
43.5 cm × 33.6 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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