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
Photograph of the ruins of Mission la Purisima Concepcion, showing an earthquake faultline in the hills of 1826, ca.1890. Tall adobe walls are visible to the left, worn down at their right side, where several apparently intersected. Small, square windows can be seen positioned in them at two different levels. In the right background, a deep rift can be seen running through a hill in the background. The picture file card identifies it as the result of an earthquake and notes that it was 150 feet deep in certain spots. Mountains can be seen in the left background, while sedgegrass fills the foreground in front of the mission.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transprarency, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs
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