California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Decorated wall niche at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1907

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Decorated wall niche at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1907

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Photograph of a decorated wall niche at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1907. The bright paint of the checkered pattern in the half-cylindrical-shaped niche stands out juxtaposed with the surrounding ruin of an adobe wall.

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Title Decorated wall niche at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1907

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 1907

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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)

Relation References George Wharton James. [California mission book]. (references)

Date Created 1907

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-m17125

Identifier 4387 (accession number), CHS-4387 (call number), CHS-4387 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17137 (legacy record id), chs-m17125 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14088 (legacy record id), 1-137-64 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17137

Unique identifier UC141970

Legacy Identifier CHS-4387.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.0 in × 17.1 in at 300dpi
33.0 cm × 43.5 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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