California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

View of Mission San Buenaventura and early Ventura from east along Main Street, Ventura, California, ca.1885

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View of Mission San Buenaventura and early Ventura from east along Main Street, Ventura, California, ca.1885

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Photograph of a view of Mission San Buenaventura and early Ventura from east along Main Street, Ventura, California, ca.1885. Stockpiles of lumber belonging to Chaffee and Boustel (Bonestal?) Lumber Co. are stacked to the right of the mission's quadrangle (center). To the left of the quadrangle is the church and bell tower. The mission appears to be in dilapidated condition. "Lumberyard is east of remaining quadrangle. Hill school is on hill in back of mission. Lumber belonged to a lumberyard owned by Bonestal and [Chaffee Lumber Co.]."

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Title View of Mission San Buenaventura and early Ventura from east along Main Street, Ventura, California, ca.1885

Subject Bell towers (lcsh), Catholic Church (lcsh), Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Franciscans (lcsh), Hill School (subject), Lumber (lcsh), Lumber trade (lcsh), Mission San Buenaventura (subject), Missions -- Mission San Buenaventura (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Schools (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Main Street (roadway), USA (countries), Ventura (city or populated place), Ventura (counties)

Temporal Subject 1885

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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

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-m7203

Identifier 6047 (accession number), CHS-6047 (call number), CHS-6047 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7343 (legacy record id), chs-m7203 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7329 (legacy record id), 1-125-31 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7343

Unique identifier UC123028

Legacy Identifier CHS-6047.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 35.4 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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