California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Exterior view of the ruins of the Mission San Diego, ca.1880

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Exterior view of the ruins of the Mission San Diego, ca.1880

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Photograph of an exterior view of the ruins of the Mission San Diego, ca.1880. A square of picket fence stands in the left foreground, behind which a collapsing wall made of adobe bricks can be seen. Beyond that, one of three mission buildings has lost its roof and several of the walls are crumbling. There is no glass in its windows. The two-story building to its left appears to be mostly intact, however, despite the fact that the windows appear to be boarded-up in places. In front of it, further left, the third, smallest adobe building has lost all of its spackle, and is partially obscured by the remaining walls of a fourth in front of it. The ground is dry, and dusty. Picture file card reads: "Watkins photo, copied by Chas. B. Terrill(?)." . "Terrill" likely should be spelled "Turrill", the individual in question likely being Charles Beebe Turrill, a historian and promoter of California who lived from 1854 to 1927.

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Title Exterior view of the ruins of the Mission San Diego, ca.1880

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

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1880

Subject Missions -- Mission San Diego Alcala (file heading), 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 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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-m11020

Identifier 7288 (accession number), CHS-7288 (call number), CHS-7288 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10448 (legacy record id), chs-m11020 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14081 (legacy record id), 1-128-35 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10448

Unique identifier UC140579

Legacy Identifier CHS-7288.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 cm at 300dpi

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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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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