Etching of the rear elevation of the Jose de la Guerra home "Casa de la Guerra" on Santa Barbara Block looking Southeast by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1886

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Photograph of an etching of the rear elevation of the Jose de la Guerra home "Casa de la Guerra" on Santa Barbara Block looking Southeast by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1886. A long adobe is rendered to the right, heavily cross-hatched. A two-story edifice stands at the corner of the adobe, although most of the rest of the adobe is one-story. Terracotta tiles cover the roofs and a picket fence stands to the right. A second adobe, and what appears to be an elevated birdhouse, are visible to the left. Additional information: "De la Guerra was the fifth Comandante of the Presidio de Santa Barbara. "El Gran Capitan" resided here from 1828 until his death in 1858. The taller structure attached to the main house was his Altito. It was here he would observe the roadstead of Santa Barbara and the activity along the sheltered beaches of the channel; as ships would make a port call.
Known by the locals as "Casa Grande". He would often entertain as he and his wife Maria, raised 13 children here" -- Michael Mould, author.

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Title Etching of the rear elevation of the Jose de la Guerra home "Casa de la Guerra" on Santa Barbara Block looking Southeast by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1886

Subject Mission Santa Barbara (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Barbara Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 2201 Laguna Street (roadway), California (states), Santa Barbara (city or populated place), Santa Barbara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1886

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), negatives (photographic) (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 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-m6288

Identifier 7154 (accession number), CHS-7154 (call number), CHS-7154 (filename), isla id: 1-144-84 (identifying number), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6381 (legacy record id), chs-m6288 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14095 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6397 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6381

Unique identifier UC121303

Legacy Identifier CHS-7154.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.7 in × 9.3 in at 300dpi
47.5 cm × 23.7 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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