Genre: exterior views - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View towards the Beverly Hills Hotel, steps and terraced lawn with palm trees from Sunset Boulevard. The hotel, opened in 1912 by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, was designed by Pasadena architect Elmer Grey in the Mediterranean Revival style, and the gardens were designed by the landscape architect Wilbur David Cook.
Date:: [between 1912 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Unidentified Spanish style house with terracotta tile roof, front patio, small attached garage and 2324 street address.
Date:: [between 1898 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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

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

Description:: A view of the stone fountain and pepper trees at the Mission Santa Barbara. In the background, large hills are visible.
Date:: 1898
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Thresher, G. P. (George P.)
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California, from behind the quadrangle arches, showing one of the original pepper trees in the courtyard, 1900. A long row of arches are also visible on the left extending all the way to the mission.
Date:: 1900
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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

Description:: The photograph shows the exterior of a single-story building or shack in dilapidated condition. The structure is constructed of mostly wood. It has two boarded up windows, a sliding door which is shown open, and smaller sized windows with bars. Another building or house is visible in the background.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The Embassy Hotel Apartments, located at 1001 Third Street in Santa Monica, California, has been in operation since 1927
Date:: [circa 1927-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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