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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960
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Arches of the corridors at the southwest corner of Mission San Luis Rey, San Diego, 1885
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Arches of the corridors at the southwest corner of Mission San Luis Rey, San Diego, 1885
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Photograph of the arches of the corridors at Mission San Luis Rey, San Diego, California, 1885. The dilapidated arches used to form a covered arcade that created a boundary for the quadrangle (at left). The church and its tower are visible through the arches in the foreground. Scrub grass, rocks and fallen adobe bricks cover the uneven grounds of the mission.; "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
Arches of the corridors at the southwest corner of Mission San Luis Rey, San Diego, 1885
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)
Temporal Subject
1885
Type
images
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
(aacr2),
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
1885
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-m17496
Identifier
5875 (
accession number
), CHS-5875 (
call number
), CHS-5875 (
filename
), chs-m265 (
legacy collection record id
), chs-c65-17488 (
legacy record id
), chs-m17496 (
legacy record id
), USC-1-1-1-14091 (
legacy record id
), 1-140-60 (
microfiche number
), USC (
project
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
17488
Unique identifier
UC142818
Legacy Identifier
CHS-5875.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
17.0 in × 13.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.6 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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