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Title
Five monks farming stony ground at Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1901
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1901
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 five monks farming stony ground at Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1901. Two hold picks, one wrestles a rock from a furrow, another holds a plow behind two horses, another looks on in the background. Trees are visible in the background and behind a wooden fence at left.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16665
USC-1-1-1-14095 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4167
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16665
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4167.jpg
Subject
Agriculture
Missions, Spanish
Architecture, Spanish colonial
Churches, Catholic
Mission Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Mission
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1901
Place
California
Santa Barbara
USA
Source
1-144-109 [Microfiche number]
4167 [Accession number]
CHS-4167 [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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