California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Father Junipero Serra daguerreotype and certification from 1785, May 23, 1853

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Father Junipero Serra daguerreotype and certification from 1785, May 23, 1853

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Photograph of a Father Junipero Serra daguerreotype and certification from 1785, May 23, 1853. Copy of an original daguerreotype from the Santa Barbara Museum of a painting at the Convent of San Fernando, Mexico. Father Junipero Serra can be seen from the chest up. Overlaying part of the portrait is a handwritten, signed note: "I certify the accompanying daguerreotype to be a copy from a painting in the Convent of San Fernando in Mexico -- entitled 'Verdadero Retrato del apostolico Padre Predicador Fr. Junipero Serra -- Natural de la Villa de Petra en el reino de Mallorca' [...] 'Mariannus Guerrero fecit a 1785[']. -- Legation of the U.S., Wm. Rich, Sec. of Legation, U.S.A., Mexico, May 23d 1853".

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Title Father Junipero Serra daguerreotype and certification from 1785, May 23, 1853

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1853-05-23

Subject Father Junipero Serra (file heading), Fr. Serra (file heading), Priests (lcsh), Serra, Junipero (subject), Serra, Junipero (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Mexico (countries), Mexico City (city or populated place)

Temporal Subject 1853-05-23

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)

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-m14331

Identifier 337 (accession number), CHS-337 (call number), CHS-337 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14973 (legacy record id), chs-m14331 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13962 (legacy record id), 1-148- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14973

Unique identifier UC137865

Legacy Identifier CHS-337.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.6 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
44.8 cm × 34.0 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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