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Drawing of the ruins of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude), by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
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Drawing of the ruins of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude), by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
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Photograph (by A.B. Dodge?) of a drawing of the ruins of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude), by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883. Parts of the roof and walls of the arcade have collapsed. A shepherd allows his sheep to graze the fields in front of the mission.; "Henry C. Ford was best known for his paintings of the entire chain of twenty-one California missions. He was born in Livonia, New York in 1828, but he pursued his studies in Paris and Florence during the late 1850's. He was a Civil War illustrator and veteran, and as soon as he was discharged from service, he settled in Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, Ford became an accomplished landscapist, and was one of the founders of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1873. The studio that Ford kept in Chicago burned down in 1871. Due to his failing health, Ford moved to a milder climate, settling in Santa Barbara, California. In the summers of 1880 and 1881, he traveled by horse and buggy to each mission site south of Santa Barbara. On the mission grounds, Ford made pencil drawings and painted sketches. He was the first artist to make a set of mission images in two media, oil and etching. He went to New York to turn his renditions into etchings, which were inexpensive and could be easily duplicated. In 1893, he exhibited his mission etchings at the Chicago World's Fair. Later in his life, Ford taught and continued to paint from his Santa Barbara home. He died in 1894, leaving behind the important historical contribution of his California mission paintings." -- unknown author.; "Dubbed the "Thirteenth Mission", Nuestra Señora de la Soledad was founded on October 9, 1791 by Father Fermin Lasuen. The name of this mission tells a lot about it. Father Lasuen dedicated the site to "the Solitude of Most Holy Mary, Our Lady". It was a dry, windy plain that was very hot in the summer and freezing cold on winter nights. It was through the missionaries' irrigation of the Salinas River that the area was transformed to allow the growth of crops and livestock herding by the missionaries. Due to the inhospitable climate and land, there were very few Native Americans living in the area. Hence building and conversions were slow. It was six years before a large church was finally built. And since the desolate plain offered no protection against the floods of the Salinas River, the church was twice destroyed by the overflowing riverbanks. During a reconstruction in 1832 a third flood hit that was latter seen as the beginning of the end for the Mission Soledad. In spite of all the difficulties, the mission did prosper. Eventually the padres performed more than 2,000 baptisms and 700 marriages. The crops were bountiful and large herds of horses, cattle and sheep grazed the plains. After secularization the mission site was soon abandoned and left to decay for over one hundred years. Finally, in 1954, the Native Daughters of the Golden West began restoring what little was left of the Mission Soledad." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
Drawing of the ruins of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude), by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
Subject
Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad
(file heading),
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
Nuestra Senora de la Soledad Mission
(subject),
religious facilities
(adlf)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1883
Type
images
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
art
(aat),
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
1883
Creator
Ford, H.C.
(artist)
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-m17464
Identifier
5732 (
accession number
), CHS-5732 (
call number
), CHS-5732 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17457 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17464 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14099 (
legacy record id
), 1-123-6 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17457
Unique identifier
UC142640
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5732.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
18.0 in × 9.9 in at 300dpi
45.8 cm × 25.3 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
Linked assets
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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