California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of Mission San Buenaventura, from the hills behind the mission, Ventura, California, ca.1873

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Exterior view of Mission San Buenaventura, from the hills behind the mission, Ventura, California, ca.1873

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Photograph of the exterior view of Mission San Buenaventura, from the hills behind the mission, Ventura, California, ca.1873. The quadrangle is visible (at left). "Part of Ayers Hotel can be seen beyond the roof of a building attached to the mission on the right (center), and the saloon owned by Obiols is next to the Ayers Hotel." Two palm trees are in the mission garden (at right).; "Originally planned to be the third mission in the California chain, halfway between San Diego and Carmel, San Buenaventura's founding was postponed for 12 years. Problems at other missions prohibited the availability of the military escorts needed to establish Mission San Buenaventura. Finally, on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782, Father Serra raised a cross and celebrated Mass to found his ninth and final mission on the beach of the Santa Barbara Channel. One of the main reasons for the prosperity of this mission was the extensive irrigation provided by a seven-mile-long aqueduct that brought water to the mission from the Ventura River. This allowed the production of many types of fruit, grains and vegetables. Due to the outstanding climate they were even able to grow exotic crops usually found only in torrid zones, such as sugar cane, bananas, coconuts and figs. After the first mission church burned down a new large stone church was begun. Fifteen years later, in 1809, it was dedicated. Three years later the earthquake of 1812 severely damaged the church but it was quickly reinforced. After secularization, in 1836, most of the mission lands were sold to private settlers. The mission church became a parish church for the surrounding town. Fortunately, the 'modern improvements' made to the church in the 1890's were undone in 1957 when the church was restored to its original state." -- unknown author.

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Title Exterior view of Mission San Buenaventura, from the hills behind the mission, Ventura, California, ca.1873

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1873

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 1873

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-m7175

Identifier 6045 (accession number), CHS-6045 (call number), CHS-6045 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7315 (legacy record id), chs-m7175 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7301 (legacy record id), 1-124-29 (microfiche number), 1-125-29 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7315

Unique identifier UC123012

Legacy Identifier CHS-6045.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.2 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
46.4 cm × 38.2 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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