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Title
Tablet marking the tomb of Father Junipero Serra at Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, ca.1905
Creator
James, George Wharton
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
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 the tablet marking the tomb of Father Junipero Serra at Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Monterey, ca.1905. A cross is engraved at top. The tablet reads (dark lettering on marble or granite): "Hic jacent exuviae, Adm. Rev. Patris Juniperi Serra, O.S.F., Missionum Californiae fundatoris, AC Praesidis in pace depositae, die XXVIII mensis Augusti A.D. MDCCLXXXIV, atque sociorum ejus, R.R.P.P. Joannis Crespi, Juliani Lopes, et Francisci Lasuen, requiescant in pace." Father Serra died August of 1784.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m16618
USC-1-1-1-14075 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4115
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m16618
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4115.jpg
Language
Latin
Subject
Carmel Mission
Serra, Junipero
Missions--Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo)
Mission Carmel--San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
Missions, Spanish
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
California
Carmel
Monterey
USA
Source
4115 [Accession number]
CHS-4115 [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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