California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Drawing by Vischer depicting the ruins of the presidio of San Diego outside of old San Diego at the entrance to Mission Valley, 1874

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Drawing by Vischer depicting the ruins of the presidio of San Diego outside of old San Diego at the entrance to Mission Valley, 1874

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Photograph of a drawing by Vischer depicting the ruins of the presidio of San Diego outside of old San Diego at the entrance to Mission Valley, 1874. There are two very tall intertwined palm trees on a mound at the center of the picture. At the base of this mound, there is a mounted man wearing a hat, and behind him, on a hill, there are two buildings, one of which resembles an adobe house. There are mountains visible at the right side of the image and in the background, and in the upper left corner, the sun is pushing through the cloud cover.

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Title Drawing by Vischer depicting the ruins of the presidio of San Diego outside of old San Diego at the entrance to Mission Valley, 1874

Subject military areas (adlf), Missions -- Mission San Diego Alcala (file heading), San Diego County -- San Diego -- Old Town (file heading), San Diego Presidio (subject), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1874

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), negatives (photographic) (aat), 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 1874

Creator Vischer, Edward (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-m8709

Identifier 9719 (accession number), CHS-9719 (call number), CHS-9719 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-9084 (legacy record id), chs-m8709 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14081 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-8841 (legacy record id), 1-189- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 9084

Unique identifier UC138990

Legacy Identifier CHS-9719.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 16.0 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 40.6 cm at 300dpi

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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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