California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing by Edward Vischer of four California missions, ca.1870

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Drawing by Edward Vischer of four California missions, ca.1870

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Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer of "Departed Mission Relics" -- 4 California missions (Santa Cruz 1826, La Purisima Concepcion (Purissima) 1884, San Rafael 1831, and San Francisco Solano 1832), "rescued from oblivion by the strong early-life impressions, astounding memory, descriptive power and untiring obliging[...] of California's historian General Mar. Guad. Vallejo", ca.1870. Caption partially reads: "Presumable appearance, by elevations from the respective ground-plans, a most welcome contribution to complete this antiquarian collection, a lasting memento, from an interesting sojourn at Lachryma Montis, the General's congenial, truly arcadian home, October 10 to 15th of 1878." A small oval portrait of the General is inset in the caption.

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Title Drawing by Edward Vischer of four California missions, ca.1870

Subject Art -- Vischer, Edward (file heading), La Purisima Concepcion Mission (subject), Missions -- General (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Francisco Solano Mission (subject), San Rafael Mission (subject), Santa Cruz Mission (subject), Vallejo, General Mar. Guad. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Lompoc (city or populated place), Marin (counties), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties), San Rafael (city or populated place), Santa Barbara (counties), Santa Cruz (city or populated place), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1870

Type images

Format 4 photographs : photoprints, photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 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)

Date Created 1870

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

Contributor Vallejo, General Mar.Guad. (commentator)

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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12990

Identifier 2190 (accession number), CHS-2190 (call number), CHS-2190 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12421 (legacy record id), chs-m12990 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13142 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14073 (legacy record id), 1-146-7 (microfiche number), 1-189- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12421

Unique identifier UC132787

Legacy Identifier CHS-2190.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.2 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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