California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Mission Santa Barbara, showing church entrance from cemetery, 1901

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Mission Santa Barbara, showing church entrance from cemetery, 1901

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Photograph of Mission Santa Barbara, showing church entrance from cemetery, 1901. In the extreme foreground and at right, large patches of ivy can be seen covering the ground and wall. Large trees are visible at left. At center, a large arched doorway can be seen. Three sets of skulls and crossbones can be seen above the doorway, and a tapestry hangs along the wall far overhead.

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Title Mission Santa Barbara, showing church entrance from cemetery, 1901

Subject Cemeteries (lcsh), Mission Santa Barbara (subject), Mission Santa Barbara (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Barbara (city or populated place), Santa Barbara (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1901

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 22 x 17 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 1901

Creator Blunt (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-m2918

Identifier 1889 (accession number), CHS-1889 (call number), CHS-1889 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3815 (legacy record id), chs-m2918 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2991 (legacy record id), 1-144-60 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3815

Unique identifier UC116036

Legacy Identifier CHS-1889.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 14.3 in × 19.1 in at 300dpi
36.4 cm × 48.6 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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