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
Photographic portrait of a San Juan Capistrano Mission Indian bell ringer, ca. June 1909. The man is standing at center and is looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark suit and a light shirt and hat. He has a thick white beard and his hands are in his pockets. There is a wooden picket fence directly behind him with a single stone support post. Beyond the fence is an adobe building, and several trees are visible as well. This is the man on whom the character of Acu the bell ringer was based, from the book Capistrano Nights by Charles Francis Saunders (?). Picture file card reads "Character of his grace O'Sullivan".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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