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Ketchaoua Mosque, view of the main entrance, Algiers, 1929

Description:
Main entrance to Ketchaoua Mosque in Algiers. At the entrance, 29 steps lead up to a marble portico, with an octagonal minaret on each side. The Mosque is located at the foot of the Casbah, facing the Mediterranean Sea. Between 1845 and 1962, under French rule, the Mosque was converted into the Cathedral of St. Philippe, but was then converted back.
Date:
1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972
Ketchaoua Mosque, view of the main entrance, Algiers, 1929

San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, external view, Pala, 1922

Description:
External view of mission chapel, which is located in the Pala Indian Reservation in San Diego County. The official name is now Mission San Antonio de Pala but it has also been identified as San Antonio de Pala Asistencia or the "Pala Mission." This is the only historic mission facility still serving a Mission Indian tribe.
Date:
May 30, 1922
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:
Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972
San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, external view, Pala, 1922

Padre's residence at La Mission La Purísima Concepción, near Lompoc (Calif.), circa 1884

Description:
Photograph of the Padre's Residence at La Mission La Purísima Concepción (also known as La Misíon la Purísima Concepción de María Santísima, or the Mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary). The mission was founded by Father Presidente Fermin de Lasuén on December 8, 1787, as the 11th of 21 Franciscan Missions in California, near the small settlement of Lompoc. This building contained the padre's home, office, and chapel.
Date:
[1884?]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Padre's residence at La Mission La Purísima Concepción, near Lompoc (Calif.), circa 1884

Exterior view of Mission San Diego Alcala and garden, San Diego, circa 1874

Description:
Stereoscopic photographs of an exterior view of the Mission San Diego Alcala showing a well (or water tank?) in the garden. The mission, in the background, is in a state of disrepair. Much of the stucco has fallen off of the adobe walls. A road from the left leads to the church entrance. In the foreground is a windmill and well. A pipe extends from the windmill and its end hovers over the well.
Date:
[circa 1874]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Exterior view of Mission San Diego Alcala and garden, San Diego, circa 1874

Distant view towards the bell cote and chapel of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, circa 1903

Description:
General view of the chapel, bell cote (bell gable, campanario, espadaña) and adobe wall at San Antonio de Pala Asistencia. The Pala Mission was a sub-mission to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the mission on the San Luis Rey River. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date:
[circa 1903]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Distant view towards the bell cote and chapel of the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, Pala, circa 1903

Elks Temple, Santa Monica

Description:
Exterior view of the former Elks Temple, or Lodge, located at the southeast corner of Main St. and Pier Ave. in Santa Monica. The letters "BPOE" along the cornice of each visible side of the building stand for: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The BPOE is an American fraternal order and social club founded in 1868.
Date:
[between 1898 and 1934]
1898/1934
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Elks Temple, Santa Monica

Original adobe chapel at the San Francisco de Asís Mission, San Francisco, circa 1887

Description:
Original adobe chapel at the Mission Dolores, with a graveyard visible at its side. The larger basilica is barely visible at the edge of the photograph. La Misión San Francisco de Asís was founded June 29, 1776, by Father Francisco Palóu, under the direction of Father Junipero Serra. Its original name was La Misión de Nuestro Padre San Francisco de Asís (The Mission of Our Father Saint Francis de Assisi). It was commonly known as Mission Dolores, after a nearby creek called Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows creek). It is the oldest original intact Mission in California and the oldest building in San Francisco.
Date:
[1887?]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Original adobe chapel at the San Francisco de Asís Mission, San Francisco, circa 1887

San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, view towards cemetery, bell cote and chapel, Pala, circa 1900

Description:
General view of the cemetery, bell cote (bell gable, campanario, espadaña) and chapel of San Antonio de Pala Asistencia. The Pala Mission was a sub-mission to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the mission on the San Luis Rey River. The cemetery, behind an eroding adobe wall, contains the remains of hundreds of Indian converts and early California settlers and was still in use as of 2005. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date:
[circa 1900]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Thresher, G. P. (George P.)
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, view towards cemetery, bell cote and chapel, Pala, circa 1900

Exterior view of the Mission Santa Inez church, Solvang, California, circa 1885

Description:
Exterior view of the Mission Santa Inez church, Solvang, California. The long one-story church is surrounded by a picket fence and wall. The bell cote (bell gable, campanario, espadaña) is visible at the far end at left. Four small windows, four buttresses and a doorway are visible along the nave.
Date:
1885
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Exterior view of the Mission Santa Inez church, Solvang, California, circa 1885

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, exterior view towards main facade of the church, San Luis Obispo

Description:
Exterior view towards main facade of the church of the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa topped with a cross, with a terrace enclosed with a baluster railing in front and stairs descending to the street. On the left is an adjoined mission building covered with clapboard siding and with a bell cote and two chimneys on the roof.
Date:
[between 1898 and 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, exterior view towards main facade of the church, San Luis Obispo

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, exterior view towards south wing, San Luis Obispo, circa 1870-1900

Description:
Exterior view towards west building of the south wing of the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. The tile-roofed building is situated on an area elevated from the level of the street and sidewalk in front of it with a stone wall which separates the mission from the street.
Date:
[circa 1870-1900]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, exterior view towards south wing, San Luis Obispo, circa 1870-1900

Mission San Antonio de Pádua before restoration, near King City, circa 1906

Description:
The Mission of San Antonio de Padua is located in the valley of the San Antonio River along the Santa Lucia Mountains. From 1893, after the roof tiles were removed, there was no roof over the church or the arcade walkway until a 1903-1908 restoration. The photograph shows the arcade with no roof and a wooden roof over the church and may therefore show the church during the restoration
Date:
[circa 1906]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Mission San Antonio de Pádua before restoration, near King City, circa 1906

Ruins of Santa Margarita de Cortona Asistencia, Santa Margarita, ca. 1888-1889

Description:
Photograph of ruins of Santa Margarita de Cortona Asistencia, in Santa Margarita near San Louis Obispo. A wooden rail fence is on the right. The six people in front of the ruin include Mrs. Clendenen, Rev. Frederick A. Field, his wife Clara and daughter Bessie. The ground is overgrown with scrub brush.
Date:
[circa 1888-1889]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Clendenen
Collection:
C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934
Ruins of Santa Margarita de Cortona Asistencia, Santa Margarita, ca. 1888-1889