Subject: Culture / Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Collection: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View towards three popular early beach clubs: from left to right, the Breakers (under construction), Edgewater, and the Castle Del Mar Club (1910 Ocean Way).
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Bottom photo: view of Palisades Park showing a walkway lined by plants and trees including a palm tree, century plant.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Exterior view of the Santa Monica Public Library. The Main Library, built in 1904 with Carnegie funds, was remodeled in 1927 by architect E. J. Baume in a Spanish-style design
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: A sign above the window on the right, "Todd & Leslie," probably refers to the Todd and Leslie Mortuary, formerly in Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica location of Todd and Leslie listed in some online obituary notices is 1307 7th street.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Interior view of the mission church towards wooden pews, the wooden altar rail with balusters, two large paintings on the right wall and one painting, a statue of Jesus Christ and a window on the left wall, and the altar with a tabernacle and candleholders. Behind the altar on the altarpiece are five statues in niches separated by colonnettes with trompe-l'oeil marble decoration. A garland and fret decoration are painted in trompe-l'oeil technique along the top of the wall.
Date:: 1898
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Thresher, G. P. (George P.)
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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

Description:: A monk working on cord-making at the Mission Santa Barbara. This particular cord is the "cord of St. Francis."
Date:: [1898]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Thresher, G. P. (George P.)
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The interior of the church at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, view towards the west wall, portal and gallery. Pews are visible in the foreground.
Date:: [1899]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Thresher, G. P. (George P.)
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of businesses, cars and pedestrians on the east side of the 400 block of South Hill St. facing north. Businesses include the Louis Oreck Antique Jewelry store at 442, a shoe shine business, a barber shop, and Boos Bros Cafeteria; the John Luchenbach Building is in the far background on the left.
Date:: [1920-1929?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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