California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Bell tower and first church at Mission San Juan Capistrano, shown from the rear, ca.1899

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Bell tower and first church at Mission San Juan Capistrano, shown from the rear, ca.1899

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Photograph of Mission San Juan Capistrano, California. Bell tower and first church from the rear showing the crack in the church wall made by the 1812 earthquake.; "Sacristy of stone church to left, the only remaining enclosed room of that edifice. Thru its carved stone doorway the few survivors of the 1812 earthquake escaped the disaster." -- A. Yorba.

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Title Bell tower and first church at Mission San Juan Capistrano, shown from the rear, ca.1899

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Orange (counties), San Juan Capistrano (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1899

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 22 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 1899

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Contributor Yorba, A. (commentator)

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-m14450

Identifier 512 (accession number), CHS-512 (call number), CHS-512 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15090 (legacy record id), chs-m14450 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14088 (legacy record id), 1-137-12 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15090

Unique identifier UC137853

Legacy Identifier CHS-512.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 14.0 in at 300dpi
47.0 cm × 35.7 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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