View of the ruins of an adobe building next to a wooden church, most likely at Yorba, (not Spadra), which was part of Rancho Santa Ana. Title devised by cataloger; title on negative reads "The Old and New Chapel at Spadra in 1856" but this is incorrect. This is probably the adobe chapel San Antonio de Padua de Santa Ana at Yorba, and not an adobe chapel in Spadra. A print of this image appears in the Huntington Library's Verne Dyson Collection, (mssHM 26404), with the caption "Old and new church at Yorba (Rancho Santa Ana)," p. 268, Box 4. Date range approximated by cataloger based on the year that film negatives came into use and the latest known dates indicated for other Hazard images in the Huntington's collection. The adobe chapel at Yorba, on the Rancho Canon de Santa Ana, was the only adobe rancho chapel in the county. Later images of the adobe and wooden-framed chapels at Yorba show the wooden-framed building oriented differently in respect to the adobe ruin. This cataloger speculates that the wooden-framed building was built twice with a different location in relation to the adobe ruin each time.
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