California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Four people before a passageway at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1908

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Four people before a passageway at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1908

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Photograph of four people before a pasageway into the central courtyard at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1908. Pictured are (left to right): David Velasquez (standing with his left hand on the shoulder of Martinez), Celestio Martinez (sitting on a bench reading a book), Meza (the Indian mestizo, sitting on the ground), Geronimo Ruiz (the Indian santero, or saint carver, sitting on a bench reading a book). Stucco has fallen from the corners of the arched passageway revealing the adobe brick construction underneath.; The Indian santero, Meza, was the one who carved and repaired the wooden statues of the saints at the Mission of San Luis Rey, having the office handed down to him from early "neofito" ancestors. Geronimo Ruiz e Ybarra was the son of Don Natividad Ruiz and grandson of the wealthy Son Mariano Ruiz of Los Angeles (a veteran of the California war of 1846-1847, whose ancient adobe stood on the river bank in east Los Angeles. -- according to A. Yorba.

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Title Four people before a passageway at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1908

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Orange (counties), San Juan Capistrano (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1908

Type images

Format 3 photographs : transparency, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1908

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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17266

Identifier 4994 (accession number), CHS-4994 (call number), CHS-4994 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17268 (legacy record id), chs-m17266 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14089 (legacy record id), 1-137-142 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17268

Unique identifier UC142060

Legacy Identifier CHS-4994.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.1 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
33.3 cm × 42.8 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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