California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Mission San Buenaventura, California. Exterior view of front and west side, ca.1888

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Mission San Buenaventura, California. Exterior view of front and west side, ca.1888

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Photograph of Mission San Buenaventura, California. Exterior view of front and west side, ca.1888. Group of about 8 people on steps. There are crosses at the apex of the roof proper as well as on top of the bell tower. A street light is right in front. Next door is another building (wooden siding construction). A masonry retaining wall separates the mission property from the sidewalk. A hill is visible in the background.

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Title Mission San Buenaventura, California. Exterior view of front and west side, ca.1888

Subject Missions -- Mission San Buenaventura (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Buenaventura Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Ventura (city or populated place), Ventura (counties)

Temporal Subject 1888

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 16.5 x 21.5 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 1888

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14265

Identifier 142 (accession number), CHS-142 (call number), CHS-142 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13977 (legacy record id), chs-m14265 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14080 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13977

Unique identifier UC137723

Legacy Identifier CHS-142.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.1 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 35.8 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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