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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Ruins of Mission Descanso below Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border, [s.d.]
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Ruins of Mission Descanso below Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border, [s.d.]
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Description
Photograph of the ruins of Mission Descanso below Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border, [s.d.]. Two large adobe walls are pictured at center, assumedly once parts of the same structure. The first is solid, its jagged top sloping downward to the left in two peaks. Farther back, a window is visible in the second wall. The surrrounding terrain is filled with rocks and scrub vegetation.
Asset Metadata
Title
Ruins of Mission Descanso below Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border, [s.d.]
Subject
Adobe houses
(lcsh),
Churches
(lcsh),
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
Outside California -- Mexico -- Tijuana
(file heading),
religious facilities
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
buildings: Mission Descanso
(geographic subject),
Mexico
(countries),
Tijuana
(city or populated place)
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, 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)
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-m18958
Identifier
9540 (
accession number
), CHS-9540 (
call number
), CHS-9540 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18789 (
legacy record id
), chs-m18958 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18789
Unique identifier
UC136372
Legacy Identifier
CHS-9540.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.7 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.1 cm × 40.9 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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