Close
About
FAQ
Home
Collections
Login
USC Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
USC
/
Digital Library
/
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
/
Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
/
Ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), California, ca.1880
(USC DC Image)
Ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), California, ca.1880
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Download
Share
Copy Asset Link
Request this asset
Description
Photograph of the ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), California, ca.1880. At left are the remnants of what used to be the façade of the church. The stucco has fallen off of the adobe brick walls. The parapet still maintained its form even though parts of the edges have fallen. Adobe bricks from the walls of the dilapidated mission now litter the floor near the entrance. To the right is probably where the arcade used to stand. Not only the building portion remains without any covered passageway. A woman and three boys stand near the corner of the church and the arcade.; "It was a pitiful group of missionaries and soldiers who gathered on the shore of San Diego Bay on July 1, 1769. Of the 219 Spaniards who had left Lower California two months before, only half were still alive. Of the survivors, many were sick and exhausted. Even so, after two weeks' rest Governor Portola gathered the strongest men about him and set off northward in an attempt to locate Vizcaino's Bay of Monterey. Two days later, on July 16, 1769, a crude brushwood shelter had been erected, and there, Father Serra established Mission San Diego de Alcalá, which was to be the first of the famous California missions. The Indians, however, were slow in accepting the blessings offered. [...]" -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
Ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), California, ca.1880
Subject
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
religious facilities
(adlf),
San Diego Alcala Mission
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
San Diego
(city or populated place),
San Diego
(counties),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1880
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
glass plate negatives
(format),
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
1880
Creator
Watkins
(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-m17482
Identifier
5754 (
accession number
), CHS-5754 (
call number
), CHS-5754 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17475 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17482 (
legacy record id
), 1-128-21 (
microfiche number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17475
Unique identifier
UC142834
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5754.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.4 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
Conceptually similar
Exterior view of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), from the southwest, before 1883
Drawing of Mission San Diego Alcala, by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
Mission San Diego de Alcala, California, ca.1898
Ruins of the Mission San Diego Alcala, as seen from the rear, ca.1900
Mission San Diego Alcala in ruins, ca.1905
Exterior view of the Mission San Diego Alcala, showing cows, ca.1898
General view of Mission San Diego de Alcala, California, from palm trees, ca.1887-1898
Interior of Mission San Diego de Alcala, California, where Ramona was married, ca.1887
Mission San Diego de Alcala, California, ca.1880-1898
Mission San Diego de Alcala, California. Interior of old town chapel, ca.1889
Mission San Diego de Alcala, California
Distant view of Mission San Diego Alcala, ca.1887
Statue of "El Salvadore" (Christ crowned with thorns) at Mission San Diego de Alcala, ca.1905
Mission San Diego Alcala, 1886
Paschal candlestick in yard of Mission San Diego de Alcala, California, ca.1900
A front view of the ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcala (founded 1769), [s.d.]
Exterior view of the rear of the Mission San Diego, ca.1880
Statue of "El Salvadore" (Christ's agony in the garden) at Mission San Diego de Alcala, ca.1905
View of the entrance to the Mission San Diego Alcala chapel, ca.1898
Exterior view of the ruins of the Mission San Diego, ca.1880
Similar tones
View images with similar tones