California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Rear view of the earthquake ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, 1876

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Rear view of the earthquake ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, 1876

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Photograph of a painting by Vischer of a rear view of the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano (following the destruction of the church by earthquake in 1812), California, 1876. Caption partially reads: "In memory of R. Fray José Maria de Zalvidea, our leavetaking in Nov. 1842". In the foreground, a group of three men prepare to leave the Mission (founded 1776) by horse as one man shakes hands with a monk, another waits on horseback, and another holds the first man's horse. Three or four people, at left, watch the farewell. Another man on horseback chases three wild horses at right. In the background are a small building with a thatched roof, part of an aqueduct and the ruins of the church.

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Title Rear view of the earthquake ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, 1876

Subject Mission San Juan Capistrano (subject), Missions -- Mission San Juan Capistrano (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Juan Capistrano Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1876

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), negatives (photographic) (aat), paintings (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 Vischer (artist)

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-m15657

Identifier 2977 (accession number), CHS-2977 (call number), CHS-2977 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-14433 (legacy record id), chs-m15657 (legacy record id), 1-189- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 14433

Unique identifier UC144017

Legacy Identifier CHS-2977.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
45.8 cm × 32.3 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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