California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Oldest view of Mission San Jose de Guadalupe in San Jose, ca.1876

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Oldest view of Mission San Jose de Guadalupe in San Jose, ca.1876

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Photograph of the oldest view of the Mission St. Joseph of Guadalupe at San Jose, ca.1876. A long low building is adjacent to the dirt road in the foreground. The taller church building with tiled roof is to the right. Other buildings are visible behind the long low building. Mountains rise to the left. Copyright 1904 and/or January 20, 1925. Post-it note attached to photoprint reads: "Actually, #1632 is probably an 1850s photo and probably by Carleton E. Watkins. The church was destroyed in 1867 earthquake and immediately replaced by a Gothic revival church. Richard Ori(?) 9/14/1992".

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Title Oldest view of Mission San Jose de Guadalupe in San Jose, ca.1876

Subject Mission San Jose de Guadalupe (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Jose de Guadalupe Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Jose (city or populated place), Santa Clara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1876

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photoprints, b&w ; 16 x 22 cm. (aacr2), 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 1876

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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-m12579

Identifier 1632 (accession number), CHS-1632 (call number), CHS-1632 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-12078 (legacy record id), chs-m12579 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14087 (legacy record id), 1-132-2 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 12078

Unique identifier UC131218

Legacy Identifier CHS-1632.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 13.8 in at 300dpi
45.7 cm × 35.2 cm at 300dpi

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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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