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Title
Exterior view of the Jose Silvas adobe, with rickety picket fence, San Juan Capistrano, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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 an exterior view of the Jose Silvas adobe, with rickety picket fence, San Juan Capistrano, ca.1930. The one-story ranch house adobe is visible from a distance at center. In front, a picket fence can be seen lining the property, several pickets missing and its gate lopsided on the hinges and hanging open. A an elbow joint of metal piping rises up out of the ground and takes a path through the branches of a large tree large at right. Smaller trees are visible at left. A dirt road is visible in the foreground. The adobe is located west of the Santa Fe Railroad tracks and was built in 1794.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7800
USC-1-1-1-7930 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-12516
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7800
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-12516.jpg
Subject
Orange County--San Juan Capistrano--Architecture
Silvas, Jose
Jose Silvas Adobe
Views
Adobe houses
Residential sites
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
De los Rios Street (formerly "Calle Occidental")
Orange
San Juan Capistrano
USA
Source
1-33- [Microfiche number]
12516 [Accession number]
CHS-12516 [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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