California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting depicting the corner of Mission San Fernando's ruined church and cemetery, ca.1889

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Painting depicting the corner of Mission San Fernando's ruined church and cemetery, ca.1889

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Photograph of a painting depicting the corner of Mission San Fernando's ruined church and cemetery, ca.1889. The adobe buildings of the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana are pictured to the left with collapsed roofs. A dilapidated picket fence extends from the to the right, behind which a cross-shaped grave stone can be seen. Two palm trees are pictured in the center distance, while an additional adobe is pictured to the far right. A hill can be seen in the background.

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Title Painting depicting the corner of Mission San Fernando's ruined church and cemetery, ca.1889

Subject Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Fernando Rey de Espana Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Mission Hills (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1889

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), photographic prints (aat), 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 1889

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (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-m18097

Identifier 7941 (accession number), CHS-7941 (call number), CHS-7941 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18106 (legacy record id), chs-m18097 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14083 (legacy record id), 1-130-69 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18106

Unique identifier UC113682

Legacy Identifier CHS-7941.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.4 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 31.7 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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