California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Back of a carved or engraved cross at Mission San Buenaventura, California, ca.1903

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Back of a carved or engraved cross at Mission San Buenaventura, California, ca.1903

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Photograph of the back of a carved or engraved cross at Mission San Buenaventura, California, ca.1903. The cross is decorated with ornately-carved or engraved flowers of fine lines. The cross has carved ends with a small round bottom. The circular base holds the cross. The arms of a Christ figure hung on the front of the cross are also visible. A wall with several cracks is visible behind.

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Title Back of a carved or engraved cross at Mission San Buenaventura, California, ca.1903

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 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 1903

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-m16771

Identifier 4424 (accession number), CHS-4424 (call number), CHS-4424 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16704 (legacy record id), chs-m16771 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14080 (legacy record id), 1-125-21 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16704

Unique identifier UC141286

Legacy Identifier CHS-4424.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 17.0 in at 300dpi
33.0 cm × 43.3 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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