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Title
Sketch of Mission San Diego, by Lieutenant Wilkinson for the War Department, 1853
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1853
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a sketch of Mission San Diego, by Lieutenant Wilkinson for the War Department, 1853. The mission, at a distance, features a bell tower (left), walls with multi-curved parapets, and a long arcade (right). Smaller buildings are situated nearby the mission. A woman stands near clotheslines(?) (foreground).
"Mission San Diego is the oldest mission in California, and the first link in the 'chain' of missions that stretches 650 miles along the El Camino Real or King's Highway. On Presidio Hill there stands a large cross on which the following words are written: 'Here Father Serra first raised the cross. Here began the first mission, here the first town, San Diego, July 16, 1769.'" -- unknown author.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m17701
USC-1-1-1-14081 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6128
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17701
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6128.jpg
Subject
Missions--Mission San Diego Alcala
San Diego Alcala Mission
Views
Missions, Spanish
Religious facilities
Time Period
1853
Place
California
San Diego
USA
Source
1-128-26 [Microfiche number]
6128 [Accession number]
CHS-6128 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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