Painting depicting the Mission Santa Cruz the day after the earthquake, ca.1859

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Photograph of a painting depicting the Mission Santa Cruz the day after the earthquake, ca.1859. The entire front of the mission has collapsed to rubble, showing the interior and the altar, which stand behind the altar rail. A striped patter can be seen on the interior roof beams. Hilly terrain can be seen to the right. Picture file card reads: "photo obtained by Vischer", and "Picture appears to be the same as one The Pioneers Society of Cal. Credited to Mrs. Julia Matthew as the artist (see p.12)".

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Title Painting depicting the Mission Santa Cruz the day after the earthquake, ca.1859

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Santa Cruz (city or populated place), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1859

Type images

Format 3 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), negatives (photographic) (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 1859

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-m17942

Identifier 7734 (accession number), CHS-7734 (call number), CHS-7734 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17930 (legacy record id), chs-m17942 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14097 (legacy record id), 1-146-10 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17930

Unique identifier UC113659

Legacy Identifier CHS-7734.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.3 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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