California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Wall decorations at Mission San Juan Capistrano (San Luis Rey de Francia?), 1905

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Wall decorations at Mission San Juan Capistrano (San Luis Rey de Francia?), 1905

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Photograph (close-up) of wall decorations at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, 1905. Many of the painted decorations are quite faded or worn. The upper designs include two identical figures -- discs each surrounded by three semi-circles. A wave-like design flows between the figures. There are five figures at bottom -- flame-shaped with a striped diamond within each. A design reminiscent of the Fleur-de-lis sits atop each of the lower figures. The wall is probably located at San Juan Capistrano and not San Juan Bautista (according to Norman Neuerburg, North Hollywood, 1955-8-26).

Asset Metadata

Title Wall decorations at Mission San Juan Capistrano (San Luis Rey de Francia?), 1905

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1905

Subject Missions -- Mission San Juan Capistrano (file heading), Missions -- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (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 1905

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17cm. (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)

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-m16805

Identifier 4455 (accession number), CHS-4455 (call number), CHS-4455 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16738 (legacy record id), chs-m16805 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14088 (legacy record id), 1-140-70 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16738

Unique identifier UC141323

Legacy Identifier CHS-4455.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.9 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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