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Painting of an exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey from 1840(?), [s.d.]
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Painting of an exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey from 1840(?), [s.d.]
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Photograph of a painting of an exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey from 1840(?), [s.d.]. The façade of the two-story church features a multi-curved parapet. Two (bell?) towers with cupola flank the church. To the left of the church is the cloister.; "Although the last mission to be founded in the south, San Luis Rey the 'King of the Missions' came to be the largest and richest of all. A great quadrangle was 500 feet on a side. An intricate aqueduct system supplied water for the mission and gardens as well as for pools used for bathing and laundry. In the year 1831 an incredible 16,000 cattle, 25,500 sheep and 2,150 horses graced the far-flung ranchos. 395,000 bushels of grain and 2,500 barrels of wine were produced by that same year. Mexico, once free from Spain, began to divide the spoils of the mission system. Governor Pio Pico and his brother alone appropriated 90,000 acres of Mission San Luis Rey land for themselves. By 1846 the last vestige of mission life had disappeared. Finally, the U. S. Government gathered the last of the Indians into a 'temporary' home on a reservation at Pala. They are still there, the only original site where Mission Indians are still ministered to. The original decree, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 18, 1861, which returned the mission buildings and a few surrounding acres to the Church, is displayed today in the mission museum. Even so, years of vandalism and neglect followed before Franciscans from Mexico returned in 1892, to begin a restoration which has recaptured much of the grandeur of old." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
Painting of an exterior view of Mission San Luis Rey from 1840(?), [s.d.]
Subject
Missions -- Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
(file heading),
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
religious facilities
(adlf),
San Luis Rey de Francia Mission
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(counties),
San Luis Rey
(city or populated place),
USA
(countries)
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(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)
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
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Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17727
Identifier
6202 (
accession number
), CHS-6202 (
call number
), CHS-6202 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17714 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17727 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14091 (
legacy record id
), 1-140-64 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17714
Unique identifier
UC142657
Legacy Identifier
CHS-6202.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
19.9 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.7 cm × 40.6 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
Date Created
1860/1960
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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