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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Luis Obispo taken by the photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875. The southern front entrance to the mission is shown, a wall gate opening up into the main building's archway doors. Three bells hang from openings on the second floor of the adobe. To the left, a second building is built into the wall, showing a small window and terracotta-tiled roof. Writing is painted on the front of the main building, which reads "Creata MDCCLXXII" and "Reparata MDCCCLXXII". Other text is pictured but illegible. Tree foliage hangs over the wall near the gate. The strip in front of the mission may be a sidewalk, as a drop is visible in the foreground, although no ground is pictured beyond it.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs
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