California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Painting depicting the Mission Santa Crux church after the earthquake of 1859, ca.1900

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Painting depicting the Mission Santa Crux church after the earthquake of 1859, ca.1900

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Photograph of a painting depicting the Mission Santa Crux church after the earthquake of 1859, ca.1900. The painting, a copy of the original by Miss Weltz, shows the altar of the church through the opening in a collapsed wall. The tiles of the roof above hang in ruin. Handwriting along the bottom of the image reads "Exaltacion de la Santa Crux" and "Corner Stone laid 1793".

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Title Painting depicting the Mission Santa Crux church after the earthquake of 1859, ca.1900

Subject Mission Santa Cruz (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), Santa Cruz Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), mountains: Mission Hill (geographic subject), Santa Cruz (city or populated place), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

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 1900

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Weltz, Miss (artist)

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-m18087

Identifier CHS-7927 (call number), CHS-7927 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18104 (legacy record id), chs-m18087 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14097 (legacy record id), 1-146-11 (microfiche number), USC (project), 7927 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18104

Unique identifier UC113646

Legacy Identifier CHS-7927.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 34.0 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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