California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Interior of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala, California, showing altar, ca.1898

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Interior of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala, California, showing altar, ca.1898

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Photograph of interior of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala showing altar, ca.1898. The Virgin Mary is in the place of honor, Saint Louis Rey on right and Saint Antonio on left of altar. All sculpted by Indians. Fabric drapes all visible walls and ceiling. A wooden rail is in the foreground. The floor is brick.

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Title Interior of Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala, California, showing altar, ca.1898

Subject Architecture (lcsh), Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala Mission (subject), Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala (subject), Missions -- Mission Asistencia of San Antonio at Pala (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Pala (city or populated place), San Diego (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 Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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-m14472

Identifier 543 (accession number), CHS-543 (call number), CHS-543 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15112 (legacy record id), chs-m14472 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14077 (legacy record id), 1-141-8 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15112

Unique identifier UC138001

Legacy Identifier CHS-543.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.1 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.4 cm × 33.4 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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