View of the front of Mission San Gabriel lined with pepper trees, ca.1886

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Photograph of a view of the front of Mission San Gabriel lined with pepper trees, ca.1886. Four bells are visible in the six niches of the bell tower atop of which is perched a cross at left. A pergola partially shades a small area enclosed by a picket fence directly below. A line of 10 buttresses support the tall thick walls of the church at right.

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Title View of the front of Mission San Gabriel lined with pepper trees, ca.1886

Subject Architecture, Spanish colonial (lcsh), Bell towers (lcsh), Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Fences (lcsh), Mission San Gabriel (subject), Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (file heading), Missions -- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Gabriel Arcangel Mission (subject), Trees (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Mission Avenue (roadway), San Gabriel (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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 1886

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6248

Identifier 4249 (accession number), CHS-4249 (call number), CHS-4249 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6343 (legacy record id), chs-m6248 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14086 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6356 (legacy record id), 1-133-99 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6343

Unique identifier UC128128

Legacy Identifier CHS-4249.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.4 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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