California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Four Franciscan monks playing croquet at Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1904

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Four Franciscan monks playing croquet at Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1904

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Photograph of four Franciscan monks playing croquet at Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1904. They all wear habits. They are all intently focused on the three balls and two hoops at their feet as one of them prepares a shot. A pile of vegetation stands behind them. A cactus grows at left behind them. Part of a building is visible through the trees in the background.

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Title Four Franciscan monks playing croquet at Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1904

Subject Architecture, Spanish colonial (lcsh), Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Mission Santa Barbara (subject), Mission Santa Barbara (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Barbara Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1904

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, 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 1904

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-m16579

Identifier 4071 (accession number), CHS-4071 (call number), CHS-4071 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-16515 (legacy record id), chs-m16579 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14095 (legacy record id), 1-144-96 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 16515

Unique identifier UC141403

Legacy Identifier CHS-4071.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 12.8 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
32.6 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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