California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Plaza Church of Mission Los Angeles and Plaza, ca.1870

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Plaza Church of Mission Los Angeles and Plaza, ca.1870

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Photograph of the Mission Los Angeles Plaza Church from the south end of the Plaza, ca.1870. Other buildings are visible adjacent to it along the dirt road which runs in front. Undeveloped hills are visible behind.; "Plaza church (before 1869) showing fence around the entrance. Father Adam says, 'Where Buena Vista Street is now open, north on the hill, stood a chapel from 1784 to 1812; where a Franciscan friar from San Gabriel said Mass every Sunday and holidays.' The fence about the Plaza was built by the owners of the reservoir at extreme right of the picture. Later they planted the trees and otherwise improved it."

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Title Plaza Church of Mission Los Angeles and Plaza, ca.1870

Subject Churches, Catholic (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Plaza #4 -- Architecture -- Churches -- Plaza Church -- 1 of 2 (file heading), Plaza Church (subject), Plazas (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1870

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.; 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 Vischer, Edward (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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3847

Identifier 1310 (accession number), CHS-1310 (call number), CHS-1310 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5303 (legacy record id), chs-m3847 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3934 (legacy record id), 1-14- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5303

Unique identifier UC119089

Legacy Identifier CHS-1310.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.6 in × 16.2 in at 300dpi
55.0 cm × 41.3 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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