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 a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Mission La Purisima Concepcíon, ca.1876. The ruins of the adobe walls stand in the foreground beside an overgrown area with a round fountain to the nearby to the left where a man on horseback drives several horses in the field beyond. Cattle(?) graze at right. A long low building sits at the foot of a low hill in the background. Rays of the sun break through the clouds above. The text below the image reads: "Date of foundation Dec. 8, 1787 ruins of the ex-Mission of La Purisima Concepcion photograph of 1876", "drawn between 1 & 6 of April '78", "the first stones of the temple", and "After a photograph, the valuable contribution of Mrs. Josephine Bishop completing the Mission collection on author's 70th birthday". Photoprint reads: "Indian barracks over 500 feet long".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : transparency, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm. transparencies photographic prints photographs art
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