California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Historic penance bell at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, ca.1890

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Historic penance bell at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, ca.1890

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Photograph of the Historic penance bell at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, ca.1890. The bell hangs from a long metal rod supported by a folding wooden ladder standing on a boardwalk on the Mission grounds. Part of the exterior corridor of a one-story adobe building is visible behind the group. A tree and several small plants grow in the courtyard at left. An inscription on the bell is illegible.; "This bell (known as the Penance Bell) was given by Henry Delano Fitch as a forfeit for his transgression when he defied the civic and eclesiastical authorities and eloped with Josefa Carillo, a Spanish California lady -- the first elopement of California -- 1829."

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Title Historic penance bell at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, ca.1890

Subject Bells (lcsh), Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Los Angeles City -- Plaza -- Architecture -- Churches -- Plaza Church (subject), Mission Los Angeles (subject), Monasticism and religious orders (lcsh), Plaza Church (subject), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1890

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1890

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-m16424

Identifier 3870 (accession number), CHS-3870 (call number), CHS-3870 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16086 (legacy record id), chs-m16424 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16086

Unique identifier UC141025

Legacy Identifier CHS-3870.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 32.6 cm at 300dpi

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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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