Exterior view of the Machado House in the Old Town Plaza of San Diego, ca.1920

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Machado House in the Old Town Plaza of San Diego, ca.1920. The narrow side of a barn-style building displays two signs which read "Casa Mexicana", which appears to be electrified, and "Now Open.". A portion of post-and-rail fence is visible next to one of the two windows to the left. Several doors are visible along with what appears to be the support for a covered patio in the right distance. A long sign stands next to the leftmost doorway, although it is illegible. The roof of a second, much taller building can be seen in the right background behind trees and a second post-and-rail fence. The road in front is unpaved. Picture file card reads: "Old army headquarters and house of the Mexican girl patrol.".; "Corporal Jose Manuel Machado, pioneer leatherjacket soldier of the Spanish Army, arrived at San Diego Presidio about 1782. He built this house, on the southwest side of the Old Town Plaza, facing San Diego Avenue, probably in 1832, for his daughter, Maria Antonia and her husband, Manuel de Silvas. It became Known as the Casa de la Bandera, or 'House of the Flag,' when the lady hid in it the Mexican flag cut away from the Plaza pole, when the Americans occupied San Diego. Albert Smith, who shinnied up the pole with the Stars and Stripes, married Maria Antonia's sister Guadalupe soon after. The old house is now in use as a Community Church for the Old Town area." -- unknown author.

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Title Exterior view of the Machado House in the Old Town Plaza of San Diego, ca.1920

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1915/1925

Subject Adobe houses (lcsh), Machado (subject), residential sites (adlf), San Diego County -- Architecture -- Adobes (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), San Diego (city or populated place), San Diego (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1915/1925

Type images

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

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-m8907

Identifier 7455 (accession number), CHS-7455 (call number), CHS-7455 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9267 (legacy record id), chs-m8907 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-9044 (legacy record id), 1-33- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9267

Unique identifier UC138742

Legacy Identifier CHS-7455.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.0 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
48.5 cm × 36.8 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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