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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Mission Descanso below Tijuana, ca.1887
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Mission Descanso below Tijuana, ca.1887
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Description
Photograph of the ruins of Mission Descanso below Tijuana, Mexico, ca.1887. The stone walls of what once was a mission house stand roofless, with a wall at right bearing a square hole for a window. Rubble stands before the structure, as well as a somewhat grassy plot of land. The background is neutral.
Asset Metadata
Title
Mission Descanso below Tijuana, ca.1887
Subject
Adobe houses
(lcsh),
Churches
(lcsh),
Mexico -- Tijuana
(file heading),
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
religious facilities
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
buildings: Mission Descanso
(geographic subject),
Mexico
(countries),
Tijuana
(city or populated place)
Temporal Subject
1887
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, 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
1887
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18814
Identifier
8205 (
accession number
), CHS-8205 (
call number
), CHS-8205 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-18650 (
legacy record id
), chs-m18814 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14153 (
legacy record id
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
18650
Unique identifier
UC135934
Legacy Identifier
CHS-8205.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
20.0 in × 16.5 in at 300dpi
51.0 cm × 42.0 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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