Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Mission La Purisima Concepcíon, ca.1876

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Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Mission La Purisima Concepcíon, ca.1876. The ruins of the adobe walls stand in the foreground beside an overgrown area with a round fountain to the nearby to the left where a man on horseback drives several horses in the field beyond. Cattle(?) graze at right. A long low building sits at the foot of a low hill in the background. Rays of the sun break through the clouds above. The text below the image reads: "Date of foundation Dec. 8, 1787; ruins of the ex-Mission of La Purisima Concepcion; photograph of 1876", "drawn between 1 & 6 of April '78", "the first stones of the temple", and "After a photograph, the valuable contribution of Mrs. Josephine Bishop completing the Mission collection on author's 70th birthday". Photoprint reads: "Indian barracks over 500 feet long".

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Title Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Mission La Purisima Concepcíon, ca.1876

Subject Art -- Vischer, Edward (file heading), Mission La Purisima Concepcion (subject), Mission La Purisima Concepcion (file heading), Missions -- Mission La Purisima Concepcion (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Vischer, Edward (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Lompoc (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1876

Type images

Format 4 photographs : transparency, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), 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)

Date Created 1876

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (illustrator), 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 Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12978

Identifier 2984; 7211 (accession number), CHS-2984 (call number), CHS-7211 (call number), CHS-2984 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12426 (legacy record id), chs-m12978 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13130 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14076 (legacy record id), 1-122-21 (microfiche number), 1-122-8 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12426

Unique identifier UC132770

Legacy Identifier CHS-2984.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.8 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
42.6 cm × 33.0 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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