California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting depicting the back courtyard of the old San Fernando Mission church in ruins, 1890

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Painting depicting the back courtyard of the old San Fernando Mission church in ruins, 1890

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Photograph of a painting depicting the back courtyard of the old San Fernando Mission church in ruins, 1890. What appears to be livestock and a dog are pictured drinking water from a puddle in the right foreground, while the adobe complex of the mission church is pictured in the background with fallen walls and roofs. The main building of the complex stands to the far left, from which the cloister extends to the right. Hills are visible in the background.

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Title Painting depicting the back courtyard of the old San Fernando Mission church in ruins, 1890

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 1890

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 1890

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-m18096

Identifier 7940 (accession number), CHS-7940 (call number), CHS-7940 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18111 (legacy record id), chs-m18096 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14083 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18111

Unique identifier UC113677

Legacy Identifier CHS-7940.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.0 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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