California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the south aspect of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1885

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Exterior view of the south aspect of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1885

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Photograph of an exterior view of the south aspect of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1885. The square bell tower rises on the right corner of the church and has a dome roof with a cross on top. The mission church roof is covered with spanish-style tiles. The exterior corridor of an adjacent building has an arcade of arches that run to the left. Another cross is perched on the multicurved parapet over the main entry. Scrub grass grows on the predominatly flat surrounding grounds.

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Title Exterior view of the south aspect of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, ca.1885

Subject Missions -- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), San Luis Rey de Francia Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (counties)

Temporal Subject 1885

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1885

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-m17283

Identifier 5025 (accession number), CHS-5025 (call number), CHS-5025 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17285 (legacy record id), chs-m17283 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14091 (legacy record id), 1-140-52 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17285

Unique identifier UC141840

Legacy Identifier CHS-5025.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
47.4 cm × 37.7 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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