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Title
Statue depicting the infant Christ holding an urn, ca.1903
Creator
Blunt
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903
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 statue depicting the infant Christ holding an urn, ca.1903. An toddler with an adult face is shown kneeling on a nebulous shape that appears to be a mushroom. He holds an urn in his right hand and supports it from below with his left. He wears a tunic, the sash of which is billowing upward. A wrinkled cloth covers the floor. Adobe walls can be seen in the background. Picture file card reads "Chapel. San Diego Old Town".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m19797
USC-1-1-1-14081 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12621
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19797
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12621.jpg
Subject
Missions--Mission San Diego Alcala
Missions, Spanish
San Diego Alcala Mission
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1903
Place
California
San Diego
USA
Source
1-128-61 [Microfiche number]
12621 [Accession number]
CHS-12621 [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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