California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Deteriorated baptismal font at the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, ca.1893

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Deteriorated baptismal font at the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, ca.1893

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Photograph of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1893. Deteriorated baptismal font. The front of the font is completely gone. A well-worn wall is visible behind the font.

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Title Deteriorated baptismal font at the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, ca.1893

Subject Missions -- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Luis Rey de Francia Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (counties)

Temporal Subject 1893

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 20 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 1893

Creator Gould (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-m14313

Identifier 253 (accession number), CHS-253 (call number), CHS-253 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14955 (legacy record id), chs-m14313 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14091 (legacy record id), 1-140-7 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14955

Unique identifier UC138066

Legacy Identifier CHS-253.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.4 in × 10.9 in at 300dpi
44.2 cm × 27.7 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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