California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Priest in a tower with the Great Bell (the largest of the bells) in Mission Santa Barbara, 1898

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Priest in a tower with the Great Bell (the largest of the bells) in Mission Santa Barbara, 1898

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Photograph of a priest in a tower with the Great Bell (the largest of the bells) in Mission Santa Barbara, 1898. The priest can be seen standing at right wearing the traditional Franciscan habit. What appears to be a rosary with a large cross attached to the end of it can be seen hooked on to his belt. He is looking down and is pointing at a large bell to the left. The bell is attached to a thick, horizontal wooden pole. A shingled roof can be seen in the background.

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Title Priest in a tower with the Great Bell (the largest of the bells) in Mission Santa Barbara, 1898

Subject Bell towers (lcsh), Bells (lcsh), Catholic Church -- Clergy (lcsh), Franciscans (lcsh), Mission Santa Barbara (subject), Mission Santa Barbara (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), Monasticism and religious orders -- Habit (lcsh), Religious and ecclesiastical institutions (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Barbara (city or populated place), Santa Barbara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm., 20 x 15 cm., 21 x 16 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1898

Creator Thresher, George P. (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.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2613

Identifier 480 (accession number), CHS-480 (call number), CHS-480 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3525 (legacy record id), chs-m2613 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2675 (legacy record id), 1-144-48 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3525

Unique identifier UC120765

Legacy Identifier CHS-480.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 17.1 in at 300dpi
33.5 cm × 43.4 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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