California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) from the front, ca.1887

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Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) from the front, ca.1887

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Photograph of Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) from the front, ca.1887. A cross is at the apex of the roof of the church. Four columns arc over the main entryway, and three small bells can be seen at the top of the façade. The cemetery is visible behind a fence at left. Several tall graves can be seen over the fence and through the thick vegetation. At right, ruins of walls are visible. The mission was founded October 9, 1776.

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Title Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) from the front, ca.1887

Subject Cemeteries (lcsh), Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Francisco (city or populated place), San Francisco (counties)

Temporal Subject 1887

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1887

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-m15537

Identifier 2333 (accession number), CHS-2333 (call number), CHS-2333 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14332 (legacy record id), chs-m15537 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14084 (legacy record id), 1-131-5 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14332

Unique identifier UC144048

Legacy Identifier CHS-2333.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.4 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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