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Title
Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the guard house of the Mission Santa Barbara, ca.1865-1873
Creator
Vischer, Edward
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1865/1873
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 drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the guard house of the Mission Santa Barbara as seen looking towards the bay, ca.1865-1873. The guard house is pictured collapsing at center, its thatched roof in disrepair showing several of its support beams to the right where the silhouette of a man and two horses can be seen. A ship can be seen out on the bay in the distance to the left. Text below the image reads: "Supplementrary Drawings 4 1873", "Sketched April 1865", "Mission-Ruins" and "The dilapidated Gaurdhouse at the Sta. Barbara Mission. View towards the Bay".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m2901
USC-1-1-1-2974 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7235
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2901
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7235.jpg
Subject
Mission Santa Barbara
Missions, Spanish
Building, Adobe
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1865/1873
Place
California
Cannon Perdido & Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
USA
Source
1-144-90 [Microfiche number]
7235 [Accession number]
CHS-7235 [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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