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Title
Statue of Father Junipero Serra on Presidio Hill in San Diego, ca.1880
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1880
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 of Father Junipero Serra on Presidio Hill in San Diego, ca.1880. At center a statue of a man wearing a robe is visible looking down with his hands behind his back. The statue is on top of a concrete pedestal with a plaque on it reading, "Father Junipero Serra by Arthur Putnam [?] San Diego Historical Society by [?] Scripps Trust Estate [?] P. Scripps Trustee". Trees can be seen obscuring a building in the background, while grass is visible on a lawn in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
25 x 20 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8721
USC-1-1-1-8853 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12338
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8721
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12338.jpg
Subject
San Diego County--San Diego--Old Town
Serra, Junipero
Views
Statues
Monuments
Time Period
circa 1880
Place
California
San Diego
USA
Source
12338 [Accession number]
CHS-12338 [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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