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Title
An olive mill at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Contributor
Yorba, A., commentator
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 an olive mill at Mission San Juan Capistrano, California, ca.1900. The olive mill can be seen in the foreground at right, showing a grinding stone and central wooden post about which the stone rolled on a stone base. In the background are the ruined walls of the mission. A pepper tree can be seen in front of the mission at left.
"...Erected in 1880 by Don Ramon Yorba. Granite mill stone brought from old mission mill at La Mission Vieja. Basalt stone given to Padre Mut by Indians of Pala." -- A. Yorba
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m14617
USC-1-1-1-14088 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-723
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m14617
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-723.jpg
Subject
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Missions, Spanish
San Juan Capistrano Mission
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Orange
San Juan Capistrano
USA
Source
1-137-41 [Microfiche number]
723 [Accession number]
CHS-723 [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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