California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the San Juan Capistrano Mission, showing walls from the Serra Chapel, ca.1900

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Exterior view of the San Juan Capistrano Mission, showing walls from the Serra Chapel, ca.1900

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Photograph of an exterior view of the San Juan Capistrano Mission, showing walls from the Serra Chapel, ca.1900. The rear of the brick mission is shown at center, with its length extending toward the rear right of the image. Crumbling walls of larger stones protrude from the mission building in the foreground, amidst tall grasses and other vegetation. A cross and mission bells are visible in the right background.

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Title Exterior view of the San Juan Capistrano Mission, showing walls from the Serra Chapel, ca.1900

Subject 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), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 10 x 13 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 1900

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

Contributor Yorba, A. (donor)

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-m13932

Identifier 15007 (accession number), CHS-15007 (call number), CHS-15007 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13403 (legacy record id), chs-m13932 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14088 (legacy record id), 1-137-156 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13403

Unique identifier UC136593

Legacy Identifier CHS-15007.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.5 in × 15.9 in at 300dpi
49.6 cm × 40.6 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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