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Title
Ruins of Manual Garfia's adobe house in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco, 1886
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
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 ruins of Manuel Garfia's adobe house on the banks of the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena (San Pasqual Rancho), 1886. Two walls with a window and door are all that rise from the land overgrown with wild brush.
"This is where the Mexican loyalists first met to formulate their terms of capitulation to Colonel Fremont." -- B.A. Stevens.
"The Mexican terms of surrender were drawn up at the Flores adobe, not Garfia's house." -- Margaret Fay.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
26 x 20 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m6057
USC-1-1-1-6166 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2871
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6057
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2871.jpg
Subject
Adobe houses
Garfia, Manuel
Pasadena (LA), Architecture, Domestic
Pasadena--Architecture--General
Historical sites
Time Period
1886
Place
California
Los Angeles
Pasadena
USA
Source
1-33-; 1-37- [Microfiche number]
2871 [Accession number]
CHS-2871 [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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