California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting depicting the front courtyard, priests' and old tombs of the Mission San Gabriel, 1888

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Painting depicting the front courtyard, priests' and old tombs of the Mission San Gabriel, 1888

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Photograph of a painting depicting the front courtyard, priests' and old tombs of the Mission San Gabriel, 1888. The tall adobe complex of the mission is pictured in the background, its bells visible hanging from holes in the central wall from which long, roofed buildings extending to either side. A smaller adobe building stands in the left foreground behind a leafless tree, while two rectangular tombs are pictured at center. A second tree can be seen to the right.

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Title Painting depicting the front courtyard, priests' and old tombs of the Mission San Gabriel, 1888

Subject Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Gabriel Arcangel Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), San Gabriel (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888

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 1888

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-m18099

Identifier 7944 (accession number), CHS-7944 (call number), CHS-7944 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18113 (legacy record id), chs-m18099 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14086 (legacy record id), 1-133-88 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18113

Unique identifier UC113671

Legacy Identifier CHS-7944.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.7 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.4 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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