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Title
Monument to Junipero Serra which depicts the founder of the California missions stepping from a boat, ca.1893
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1893
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 monument to Junipero Serra which depicts the founder of the California missions stepping from a boat, ca.1893. On a rough granite base surrounded by a wrought iron spike fence. The caption reads: "Here June 3, 1770, landed Very Rev. Father Junipero Serra, O.S.F. and founded the following missions, San Diego, July 16, 17[...], San Carlos Monterey, June 3, 17[...]0, San Antonio de Padua, July [...], 1771, San Gabriel, Sept. 8, 1771, San Luis Opispo, Sept. 1, 1772, San Francisco, de Los Dolores, Oct. 9, 1776, San Juan Capistrano, Nov. [...], 1776, Santa Clara, Jan. 13, 1777, San Buenaventura, Mar. 21, 178[...] and died Aug. 28, 1784, in San Carlos Mission Carmelo Valley. 'As the Lord livith, even that my [...] saith that will I speak [...]' 2nd Chron. 18th Chap., 13th Verse. This monument erected by Jane L. Stanford, in the year 1891, in memory of Father Junipero Serra, a philanthropist seeking the welfare of the humblest [...] and ready to sacrifice himself for the good of his fellow beings, a [...] of his master." A barred, metal gate stands in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
6 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7622
USC-1-1-1-7751
USC-1-1-1-13962
USC-1-1-1-14075 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2059
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7622
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2059.jpg
Subject
Monterey County--Pacific Grove
Mission Carmel--San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
Serra, Junipero
Sculpture
Statues
Missions, Spanish
Carmel Mission
Monuments
Time Period
circa 1893
Place
California
Monterey
Pacific Grove
USA
Source
1-37-301; 1-126-49 [Microfiche number]
2059 [Accession number]
CHS-2059 [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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