California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Mission Santa Barbara, showing front view from west showing fountain, California, 1898

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Mission Santa Barbara, showing front view from west showing fountain, California, 1898

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Photograph of Mission Santa Barbara, showing front view from west showing fountain, California, 1898. In the background at right, a round fountain with a decorative column at its center can be seen. To the left, a small set of stairs can be seen leading to a rectangular building lined with large arches. A metal railing is visible at the base of each archway. In the extreme background at right, the large church and bell towers can be seen.

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Title Mission Santa Barbara, showing front view from west showing fountain, 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 : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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

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-m14393

Identifier 446 (accession number), CHS-446 (call number), CHS-446 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15033 (legacy record id), chs-m14393 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14095 (legacy record id), 1-144-17 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15033

Unique identifier UC137682

Legacy Identifier CHS-446.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.8 cm × 36.4 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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