Mission La Parissima Concepcion de Acuna, San Antonio, Texas, 1898

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Photograph of Mission La Parissima Concepcion de Acuna, San Antonio, Texas, 1898. Two bell towers flank the main entrance. A triangular etching can be seen above the main entrance near several small windows. Part of the large central dome is visible behind them. A wooden rail fence surrounds the mission. The ruin of a dilapidated adobe or stone structure attached to the church at right dominates the image. This was the first mission in San Antonio.

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Title Mission La Parissima Concepcion de Acuna, San Antonio, Texas, 1898

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1898

Subject Missions -- Texas (file heading), Missions of Texas, Arizona, Old & New Mexico (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Texas (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Bexar (counties), San Antonio (city or populated place), Texas (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm., 17 x 21 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)

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-m14661

Identifier 784 (accession number), CHS-784 (call number), CHS-784 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-15299 (legacy record id), chs-m14661 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14103 (legacy record id), 1-150- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15299

Unique identifier UC143048

Legacy Identifier CHS-784.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 36.4 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

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