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Title
Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
before 1875
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 an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer, showing the south front arches and the end of the presidio, before 1875. The portico of the mission is pictured prominently at center in front of which several posts have been driven into the ground and through which several adobe walls can be seen. It's terracotta-tiled roof has collapsed in a section to the left, like the roof of the adobe structure that obscures it in the left foreground. Scrub vegetation grows along the dusty court in front.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m3601
USC-1-1-1-14088 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7258
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3601
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7258.jpg
Subject
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Missions, Spanish
San Juan Capistrano Mission
Religious facilities
Place
California
Orange
San Juan Capistrano
USA
before 1875
Source
1-137-112 [Microfiche number]
7258 [Accession number]
CHS-7258 [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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