Mission Santa Clara altar showing ceiling painted in cactus juice, ca.1900

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Photograph of the Mission Santa Clara altar showing ceiling painted in cactus juice, ca.1900. At center, a long table is covered by a table-cloth, while two candelabras stand on pedestals to either side of it. Behind this, the altar of the mission can be seen. Five statuettes, the centermost of which is a crucifix, line the top of a second long table, behind which the wall can be seen with five carvings of religious icons set in inset archways. Two large iconic paintings are situated in similar archways to either side of this, extending out to the arched second floor of the chapel. The ceiling can be seen, depicting bishops, cherubs and cardinals, with what appears to be a monogram at its center.; Picture file card reads "Original ceiling of sanctuary painted in cactus juice tempra by Senor de Avila in 1825. The pigment, mixed in cactus juice, was applied to redwood slabs, visible in thsi pcitured. The mission burned in 1926".

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Title Mission Santa Clara altar showing ceiling painted in cactus juice, ca.1900

Subject Mission Santa Clara de Asis (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Clara de Asis Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Clara (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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)

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-m18918

Identifier 8973 (accession number), CHS-8973 (call number), CHS-8973 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18751 (legacy record id), chs-m18918 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14096 (legacy record id), 1-145-35 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18751

Unique identifier UC136278

Legacy Identifier CHS-8973.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.2 in × 20.1 in at 300dpi
41.2 cm × 51.1 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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