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Title
View of the twin towers and the cupola of Mission Purisima de Concepcion, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
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 view of the twin towers and the cupola of Mission Purisima de Concepcion, San Antonio, Texas, ca.1900. The identical twin towers are approximately three-stories tall. On the corners of the tower are small spires. At right, the cupola peaks above the dilapidated structure before it.
"The Mission Concepcion was established in 1731. One of the most attractive of the San Antonio missions, it took more than twenty years to complete. The massive church with twin towers and a cupola is the oldest un-restored stone church in the United States." -- unknown author.
Type
image
Format
2 photograph : photoprints, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17719
USC-1-1-1-14103 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6189
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17719
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6189.jpg
Subject
Missions--Texas
Texas
Missions, Spanish
Religious facilities
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Texas
USA
Source
1-153- [Microfiche number]
6189 [Accession number]
CHS-6189 [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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