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Title
Ruins of Mission Descanso below Tijuana, just south of the Mexican border
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, just south of the Mexican border, [s.d.]. Two large adobe walls are pictured at center, assumedly once parts of the same structure. The first is solid, its jagged top sloping downward to the left in two peaks. Farther back, a window is visible in the second wall. The surrrounding terrain is filled with rocks and scrub vegetation.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18958 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9540
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18958
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9540.jpg
Subject
Churches
Missions, Spanish
Adobe houses
Outside California--Mexico--Tijuana
Religious facilities
Place
Mexico
Tijuana
buildings: Mission Descanso
Source
9540 [Accession number]
CHS-9540 [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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