Detail of the choir loft and ceiling in a mission, Arizona or New Mexico, ca.1903 (CHS-4993)

Detail of the choir loft and ceiling in a mission, Arizona or New Mexico, ca.1903
Photograph a the choir loft and ceiling in a mission, Arizona or New Mexico, ca.1903. A bannister runs the length of the loft with no apparent means of entry. The wall at the back of the balcony near the ceiling is severely damaged, plaster having crumbled away from the underlying structure. The ceiling rafters sit on ornately carved and painted soffits. Another two rooms are visible through an open doorway below the loft.
Call number: CHS-4993
Photographer: James, George Wharton
Filename: CHS-4993
Coverage date: circa 1903
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 4993
Microfiche number: 1-149-
Archival file: chs_Volume98/CHS-4993.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): religious facilities
Project: USC
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1903
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona; New Mexico
Legacy record ID: chs-m17265; USC-1-1-1-14073
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Missions -- General
Subject (lcsh): Missions, Spanish
Subject: Missions Miscellaneous