California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, 1881

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Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, 1881

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Photograph of a sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, 1881. The fallen adobe walls of the mission stand at center, behind which a small shack can be seen. Two other, smaller shacks stand to the left and the right. Clusters of short trees line the back of the scene, behind which a mountain ridge is visible, dipping in lower towards the center. Writing at the bottom left of the sketch reads "Work of Henry Chapman Ford [...]" while writing at the right reads "Ruins of San Bernardino Mission sts/2.00".

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Title Sketch of the San Bernardino Mission by H.C. Ford, 1881

Subject Ford, Henry Chapman (subject), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Bernardino County -- Mission and Assistencia (file heading), San Bernardino Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Bernardino (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1881

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1881

Creator Ford, Henry Chapman (illustrator)

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-m8390

Identifier 7102 (accession number), CHS-7102 (call number), CHS-7102 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8707 (legacy record id), chs-m8390 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8522 (legacy record id), 1-134-2 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8707

Unique identifier UC138427

Legacy Identifier CHS-7102.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.1 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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