California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of Jose de Gracia Cruz, a San Juan Capistrano Mission Indian bell ringer, ca. June 1909

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Portrait of Jose de Gracia Cruz, a San Juan Capistrano Mission Indian bell ringer, ca. June 1909

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Photographic portrait of a San Juan Capistrano Mission Indian bell ringer, ca. June 1909. The man is standing at center and is looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark suit and a light shirt and hat. He has a thick white beard and his hands are in his pockets. There is a wooden picket fence directly behind him with a single stone support post. Beyond the fence is an adobe building, and several trees are visible as well. This is the man on whom the character of Acu the bell ringer was based, from the book Capistrano Nights by Charles Francis Saunders (?). Picture file card reads "Character of his grace O'Sullivan".

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Title Portrait of Jose de Gracia Cruz, a San Juan Capistrano Mission Indian bell ringer, ca. June 1909

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1905-06

Subject Cruz, Jose de Gracia (subject), Men (lcsh), Missions (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905-06

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 10 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)

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-m19912

Identifier 11742 (accession number), CHS-11742 (call number), CHS-11742 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19725 (legacy record id), chs-m19912 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14316 (legacy record id), 1-137-124 (microfiche number), 1-33- (microfiche number), 1-70- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19725

Unique identifier UC121852

Legacy Identifier CHS-11742.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.0 in × 17.3 in at 300dpi
35.5 cm × 44.1 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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