California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900

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Exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900

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Photograph of the exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900. Double-door gates opens outward allowing entrance to the famous Spanish mission turned fort. The façade features a multi-curved parapet. Underneath the parapet are two arched windows flanking a rectangular window. The entrance below the windows is decorated (or supported) with four column-like buttresses with fancy moldings and designs. Picture file card reads: "A Franciscan mission. During the war of Texas and Mexico used as a fort".

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Title Exterior view of the Alamo (erected 1716), San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900

Subject Missions -- Texas (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Texas (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place San Antonio (city or populated place), Texas (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1900

Creator Archer Art Studio (photographer), 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-m13947

Identifier 6214 (accession number), CHS-6214 (call number), CHS-6214 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13417 (legacy record id), chs-m13947 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14103 (legacy record id), 1-153- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13417

Unique identifier UC137136

Legacy Identifier CHS-6214.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.2 in × 19.6 in at 300dpi
38.7 cm × 49.8 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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