California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca.1876

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Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca.1876

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca.1876. Two women and a young girl stand in the center foreground, in front of a depression in the ground that stands beside the mission. A large, stone building appears to be collapsing in areas to the right, while two sections of adobe cloisters are visible to the left, in front of which a horseman sits astride his horse. The cloister at center appears in good repair. However, the cloister running perpendicular to it farther to the left has its terracotta-tiled roof caving in at spots, and appears to have lost much of its spackle. Several other men stand near a wooden corral near the fallen building's rubble. Picture file card reads: "Rare Picture showing in center foreground the ancient masonry pila or tank in which the Indians washed in mission times. To the center above the pila may be seen the ruined adobe walls remaining from the attempt in 1862-1863 to rebuild the stone church with adobes. At that time four of the remaining somes and the stone lantern were blown down with gun powder. Much of the masonry debris may be seen in the corner of the church. It was later turned into lime by Padre Hose [Jose?] Mut (1866-86) at San Juan in old Mission Kilns, still existing. The long building to the left is the barracks or cuartel of the mission. This picture is believed to be the only one in existence clearly showing practically all the tiles till on the cuartel roof. Another interesting point is the triangular shaped façade on the building to the left of the campanario. This was altered in 1887 to the modern shape which it now has. The road seen in the extreme lower right hand corner of the ancient Camino Real.".

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Title Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, ca.1876

Subject Missions -- Mission San Juan Capistrano (file heading), Missions, Spanish (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf), San Juan Capistrano Mission (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Orange (counties), San Juan Capistrano (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1876

Type images

Format 2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), 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 1876

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer), Turrell (compiler), Watkins (photographer)

Contributor Dr. George Watson Cole Collection (provenance)

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-m17988

Identifier 7751 (accession number), CHS-7751 (call number), CHS-7751 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17957 (legacy record id), chs-m17988 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-14089 (legacy record id), 1-137-113 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17957

Unique identifier UC113633

Legacy Identifier CHS-7751.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 12.4 in at 300dpi
46.8 cm × 31.6 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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