Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the "Campo Santo" cemetery at Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, 1904. Numerous trees shade picket fence enclosed grave plots marked with crosses. A dirt path, wet from rain [?], is visible in the foreground. Legible markers include: "Susan, wife of S. Wetterau, died Oct. 25, 1881, aged 47 years", ..."died Nov. 13th, 1881, aged [...]4 years, may his soul rest in peace, amen", "Mrs. Ellen Ca[...], native of [...]s County"..., ..."utro [...], aged 70 years"..., ..."cisco Vargas [...] 15 dias", "Mimoria de Manoel, fitho de Jose Perrer[...] de Vargas Nass[...] a 31 de Janiero de 1881 falesseo [...]. [...]5 dias", "George Joquin[...], died Oct. [...] 18[...], age 9 years 6 months Louis Joquin[...], died Oct. [...] 1880, age 5 months".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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