California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Seven people in front of the ruins of Mission Santa Margarita, ca.1898

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Seven people in front of the ruins of Mission Santa Margarita, ca.1898

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Photograph of seven people (including Mrs. Clendenen, Reverend Fred Field, wife and daughter) standing or sitting in front of the ruins of Mission Santa Margarita, ca.1898. The foreground is overgrown with scrub brush. Part of a wooden rail fence is visible at right. The people can barely be seen against the charred, stone walls of the mission.

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Title Seven people in front of the ruins of Mission Santa Margarita, ca.1898

Subject Mission San Miguel Arcangel (Santa Margarita Asistencia) (file heading), Missions -- Mission Santa Margarita Asistencia (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Margarita Asistencia Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Luis Obispo (counties)

Temporal Subject 1898

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 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 Clendenen[?] (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-m15138

Identifier 1649 (accession number), CHS-1649 (call number), CHS-1649 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14008 (legacy record id), chs-m15138 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14092 (legacy record id), 1-139-3 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14008

Unique identifier UC143474

Legacy Identifier CHS-1649.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.9 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.9 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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