Framed tintype of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, 1875

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Photograph of a framed tintype (by George Wharton James) of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, 1875. The square wood bell tower stands to the left of the church on the roof of which a cross is perched. A gated fence runs along the front of the mission. A tall cross is visible at right. The tintype is mounted in a wooden frame with a rectangular matte with rounded corners. Light glares off the left side of the image.

Asset Metadata

Title Framed tintype of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, 1875

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 1875

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1875

Creator James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 (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-m17067

Identifier 4327 (accession number), CHS-4327 (call number), CHS-4327 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17080 (legacy record id), chs-m17067 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14096 (legacy record id), 1-144-3 (microfiche number), 1-145-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17080

Unique identifier UC141912

Legacy Identifier CHS-4327.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.7 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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