An older couple outside the "Hacienda Aguilar", at San Juan Capistrano Mission, Orange County, ca.1885

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Title An older couple outside the "Hacienda Aguilar", at San Juan Capistrano Mission, Orange County, ca.1885

Description Photograph of an older couple outside the "Hacienda Aguilar", at San Juan Capistrano Mission, Orange County, ca.1885. The woman, kneeling just outside of the adobe and under the porch, is working food in a carved stone basin (metate). The man, outside of the porch, is splitting firewood. Propped up against the wall near the entrance to the adobe are a broom and a bucket. To the right of the entrance is a bed of taro plants. Behind the woman is an early adobe oven.; Picture file card reads: "East end of north wing of Hacienda Aguilar ('La Casa de Esperanza') built and added to from 1794 to 1840's -- wife of the Alcalde D. Blas Aguilar, Dona Maria Antonia Gutierrez y Geta, posing with Indian stone metate and mano. Old Indian retainer, Rosario Cervantes, at work. Old adobe mission oven and ruined east wall of patio now entirely gone" -- unknown author, ca.1980.

Creator James, G.W. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1885

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Aguilar (subject), Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Californios (file heading), Mexican Americans (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Juan Capistrano (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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10036

Identifier 5845 (accession number), CHS-5845 (call number), CHS-5845 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10262 (legacy record id), chs-m10036 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-10176 (legacy record id), 1-137-82 (microfiche number), 1-33- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10262

Unique identifier UC140308

Legacy Identifier CHS-5845.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 35.0 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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