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Drawing of Mission San Buenaventura by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
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Drawing of Mission San Buenaventura by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
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Photograph of a drawing of Mission San Buenaventura by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883. A woman is walking towards the entrance of the two-story church. A set of stairs leads up to the large arched entrance. To the right of the church stand a tower with multi-level decks and a dome roof. Attached to the church and extending towards the right is an arcade. A large cross stands on top of a hill behind the mission.; "It was on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782, that Father Serra founded the mission, San Buenaventura, which proved to be the last he established personally. The Spanish King had changed his position again, claiming that a few white settlers were of greater value than any number of Indians. Father Serra argued that the money to found the missions came from the privately collected Pious Fund. The King replied that by law he administered the Pious Fund. New missions would be churches only, without usual industries supported by Indian labor. Serra ignored the new rules at Ventura, which temporarily halted further expansion. Even so, under the old rules, Ventura was quickly most prosperous. A reservoir and aqueduct system seven miles long supplied fields stretching to the very shore of the blue Pacific, growing, according to one record, 'astounding' varieties of agricultural products. Of course, with secularization, those rules originally ignored were completely enforced. By 1845 all the lands and even the church itself had been confiscated, although the church and a few bits of other property were eventually returned. The sleepy village beside the mission suddenly blossomed in 1887 with the arrival of the railroad. Now located on the main street of the city of Ventura, and hemmed in by the business community, it might be difficult to imagine that the old church was once surrounded by orchards, vineyards, and grain fields which made it a garden spot of the missions, thanks to the aqueduct. Two huge Norfolk Island pines in the garden between the church and little museum are 100 years old, reputedly planted by a sailing captain who hoped to grow a forest for use as masts. In the museum are two old wooden bells, the only ones of their type known in California." -- unknown author.
Asset Metadata
Title
Drawing of Mission San Buenaventura by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
Subject
Missions -- Mission San Buenaventura
(file heading),
Missions, Spanish
(lcsh),
religious facilities
(adlf),
San Buenaventura Mission
(subject)
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
USA
(countries),
Ventura
(city or populated place),
Ventura
(counties)
Temporal Subject
1883
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, 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-m17470
Identifier
5739 (
accession number
), CHS-5739 (
call number
), CHS-5739 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17463 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17470 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14080 (
legacy record id
), 1-125-25 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17463
Unique identifier
UC142543
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5739.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
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