View of the Mission San Miguel, showing the old well, ca.1888

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Photograph of Mission San Miguel showing the old well, ca.1888. The wooden well is visible in the foreground at left. It consists of a wooden frame supporting a pulley with ropes leading down into the well. There is a wooden bucket in front of it. The adobe mission is visible in the background. The left side of the mission is composed of a large, windowless building, while the center and right sections of the mission are composed of a lower building with an arch-covered walkway. The mission roof is made of terracotta tile.

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Title View of the Mission San Miguel, showing the old well, ca.1888

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 801 Mission Street (roadway), California (states), San Luis Obispo (counties), San Miguel (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1888

Creator 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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19026

Identifier 9780 (accession number), CHS-9780 (call number), CHS-9780 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18942 (legacy record id), chs-m19026 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14093 (legacy record id), 1-142-40 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18942

Unique identifier UC136494

Legacy Identifier CHS-9780.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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