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Title
Painting depicting the Mission Santa Crux church after the earthquake of 1859, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Weltz, Miss
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 painting depicting the Mission Santa Crux church after the earthquake of 1859, ca.1900. The painting, a copy of the original by Miss Weltz, shows the altar of the church through the opening in a collapsed wall. The tiles of the roof above hang in ruin. Handwriting along the bottom of the image reads "Exaltacion de la Santa Crux" and "Corner Stone laid 1793".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m18087
USC-1-1-1-14097 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7927
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18087
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7927.jpg
Subject
Mission Santa Cruz
Missions, Spanish
Santa Cruz Mission
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Santa Cruz
USA
mountains: Mission Hill
Source
1-146-11 [Microfiche number]
CHS-7927 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 7927 [Identifying number]
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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