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Title
Men renovating the San Fernando Mission, showing adobe brick makers at work in the foreground, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued
1927
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 men renovating the San Fernando Mission, showing adobe brick makers at work in the foreground, 1927. A row of fresh adobe bricks can be seen running from the foreground at left toward the background at right. Dry bricks are stacked in a pile that runs parallel to this line. Six men and a boy can be seen moving the bricks, and one of the can be seen using a wheelbarrow at right. The San Fernando Mission building can be seen in the background at left. Its walls are damaged and wooden scaffolding can be seen on the left side of the structure. Hills are visible in the background at right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m30019 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36798
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m30019
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36798.jpg
Subject
Spanish mission buildings--United States
Adobe brick
Brickmakers
Church maintenance and repair
Religious facilities
Time Period
1927
Place
California
USA
Source
36798 [Accession number]
CHS-36798 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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