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Title
Mission Descanso below Tijuana, ca.1887
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
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 Mission Descanso below Tijuana, Mexico, ca.1887. The stone walls of what once was a mission house stand roofless, with a wall at right bearing a square hole for a window. Rubble stands before the structure, as well as a somewhat grassy plot of land. The background is neutral.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18814
USC-1-1-1-14153 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8205
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18814
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8205.jpg
Subject
Churches
Missions, Spanish
Adobe houses
Mexico--Tijuana
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
Mexico
Tijuana
buildings: Mission Descanso
Source
8205 [Accession number]
CHS-8205 [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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