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Title
Painting "Hanging the Mission Bell", depicting a friar and young men doing so, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Stone, George Melville
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 painting "Hanging the Mission Bell", depicting a friar and young men doing so, ca.1900. The friar stands at the top of the scaffolding to the right, supervising the work. He holds on to the rail with his left hand, pointing with the other while three young men position the bell. Two of the men are pictured on a ladder in the foreground, tugging a pulley rope. The third is pictured on the scaffolding to the left, adjusting the bell by hand. Painting in Mission Inn, Riverside by Geo Melville Stone.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
transparencies
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m13918
USC-1-1-1-14074 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7758
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13918
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7758.jpg
Subject
Missions--Bells
Missions, Spanish
Bells
Stone, George Melville
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1-150- [Microfiche number]
7758 [Accession number]
CHS-7758 [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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