Mexican family lounging under a ramada at (or near?) Mission San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, ca.1885

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Title Mexican family lounging under a ramada at (or near?) Mission San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, ca.1885

Description Photograph of a Mexican family lounging under a ramada at (or near?) Mission San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, ca.1885. Two elderly women, a younger woman, an elderly man and a younger man lounge underneath a ramada constructed of tree branches and straws (or hay?). Everyone is sitting except for the younger man who is standing next to a barrel. Chickens are pecking at the ground for food (at left). A hammock is tied to the posts of the ramada.; Picture file card reads: "L. to R. (left to right?); 1. (?) a Californian of the gente de razon; 2. Leona - San Juanena Mission Indian; 3. Fuliz - San Juanena Mission Indian; 4. Benuta - San Juanena Mission Indian; 5. (?) a Californian of the gente de razon."

Creator James, G.W. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1885

Subject Missions -- Mission San Juan Capistrano (file heading), Missions -- San Juan Capistrano (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Juan Capistrano Mission (subject)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Orange (counties), San Juan Capistrano (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1885

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

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-m2653

Identifier 5844 (accession number), CHS-5844 (call number), CHS-5844 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3561 (legacy record id), chs-m2653 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14089 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3561

Unique identifier UC120751

Legacy Identifier CHS-5844.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.3 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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