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DOI: 10.25549/chs-m8421
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the ruins of Elder Lyman and Richie's residence in San Bernardino, April 1865-1873

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the ruins of Elder Lyman and Richie's residence (Charles C. Rich Palatial Residence?) in San Bernardino, April 1865-1873. Three unsaddled horses lay and graze on the side of the hill at center, on the top of which a cabin surrounded by wooden pillars can be seen behind a free-standing wall of arched through-ways. To the right along the hill, several other cabins are pictured, each with multiple doors. Trees dapple the hillside to the left. The text below the image reads: "Supplementary Drawings of 1873", "A Mormon Relic", and "Mormon Colony at San Bernardino from 1848 to 1857. (1857 Exodus on account of the war.)".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m9661
title: Painting by Edward Vischer depicting "The California Method" of killing cattle on the ranch, before 1875

description: Photograph of the painting by Edward Vischer depicting "The California Method" of killing cattle on the ranch, before 1875. Two cowboys on horseback have roped the steer by its hind legs and horns, respectively and have stretched it immobile so that the third cowboy, at center, is able to safely slit the throat of the bull with the knife he holds. A fourth ranch hand is visible on horseback in the distance while children, an unsaddled horse, and other men stand to his sides to the right of a small adobe house. To the right, yet more people stand beneath a tree in the center distance, or along the post-and-rail fence of a corral. The text underneath the image identifies the procedure as well as the fact that the steer was intended for hides and tallow. The text also reads "Matanza" to the right. Vischer's signature, which usually appears in the bottom right corner of a drawing or painting, does not appear on the image.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12991
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting horsemen making their way around a cliff passage south of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1842-1876

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting horsemen making their way around a cliff passage south of San Juan Capistrano, ca.1842-1876. Three cowboys make their way down a path in the foreground with what appears to be the ocean to their left and mountainous terrain to their right.  A fourth cowboy does the same farther in the distance. Seagulls swarm overhead. Text written below the image identifies the area, and also reads "Addenda of 1876", "1841/2", and "A Cavalcade in the times of Duflot de Moras and Fern.do Deppe.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m174
title: Interior view of the Mission San Francisco De Asis' (Dolores) altar, taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875

description: Photograph of an interior view of the Mission San Francisco De Asis' (Dolores) altar, taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875. The altar stands at center, showing the altar rail that separates it from the pews, the altar stone, and seven statues of varying size arranged in two rows, a lower and an upper, depicting holy figures which surround a small crucifix on the lower center of the bottom row. Icons line the bottom of this decorative back wall while a stone archway frames it from behind. The silhouettes of three large candlesticks can be seen on a table to the left. More statuary is visible in compartments along the wall to either side.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14612
title: Interior view of the chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the choir loft, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the interior view of the chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the choir loft, ca.1900. Pews on either side of the ground floor form an aisle up the middle. The floor is brick. Stairs lead up the to loft which is fronted by a wooden balustrade.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m389
title: Exterior view of the south front of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, taken by photographer Edward Vischer, San Diego, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the south front of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, taken by photographer Edward Vischer, San Diego, before 1875. The main adobe building of the mission stands high at center, with a connecting bell tower at right and an arched doorway topped by a rosetta window. What appears to be a second bell tower is visible on the back of the terracotta-tiled roof. A portico walkway extends from the building to the left. A handmade trellis is visible in front of the complex growing vegetation on its roof. The ground in front appears to be dry and grassless.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m908
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia looking from the west arch and taken by photographer Edward Vischer, San Diego, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia looking from the west arch and taken by photographer Edward Vischer, San Diego, before 1875. The portico and the mission's main adobe building with its bell tower are visible behind a man in a small-brimmed hat that stands to the left of center with his hands in his vest pockets. The grass underneath him seems dry and unkempt. Arabesque decoration tops the portico while the side of the archway is partially visible in the extreme right foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m1954
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the ruins of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia looking from the west towards Temecola (Temecula?), ca.1875

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the ruins of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia looking from the west towards Temecola (Temecula?), ca.1875. Horses, oxen and other livestock grase in the field to the left while a cowboy makes his way on horseback down a dirt path to the right of center. A small line of trees separate him from the mission complex in the distance, whose bell tower and main building can be seen to the right, with its porticos extending to the left. Text written-in beneath the image identifies the area and the time-period it depicts.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2522
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the abandoned orchard of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, June 1865

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the abandoned orchard of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, June 1865. Two men are situated--one or horseback, the other seated on a rock--among a few diffuse palm trees in what appears to be a barren pit. Mountains are faintly visible in the background, and more rocks and gnarled plant growth appear to the right. Text written-in below the image identifies the area.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m17746
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Indian rancheria of Jose Antonio Verrado at the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, San Diego, April 1865

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Indian rancheria of Jose Antonio Verrado at the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, San Diego, April 1865. A thatched hut stands in the center background while two rancheros talk in the foreground. One man can be seen seated on a log, while the other is visible to the right of him on horseback. An ox stands among what appear to be unfinished wooden carts in the right background. The hill on which the hut is located descends slightly to the left. Text written-in below the image identifies the area and location, and also reads "near the Zanja, Caicha Tribe, Quechunas".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m2568
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer showing the bell tower and altar, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer showing the bell tower and altar, before 1875. The Romanesque stone buildings of the complex are visible at center, with a smaller adobe portico to the left, whose roof is covered by terracotta tiles. Some of the walls are crumbling on the larger structures. Weeds overgrow in the dust in the foreground, where a photographer's cart can be seen to the right. A handmade post-and-rail fence, as well as a portion of picket fence, surround the portico's front.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3078
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875. The building of the main church is shown here in disrepair from the southeast, several of its stone walls having collapsed. The skeleton of vaulted ceilings are visible behind the a crumbled wall in front, next to which a man stands on a pile of rubble to the left. The portico, with its terracotta-tiled roof seems to be intact in the background. Dirt paths cut through the scrub vegetation in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3370
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, taken by photographer Edward Vischer, ca.1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, taken by photographer Edward Vischer, ca.1875. Three men are visible at the bottom of a large entranceway approximately 30 feet tall. Two men stand while the third is situated in front of them on horseback. Inside the giant arch nine faux-windows are carved into the stone wall at its back. Part of the stone structure is crumbling on the hill to the left, and the terracotta roof tiles at the very top show signs of disrepair as well.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3601
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano taken by photographer Edward Vischer, showing the south front arches and the end of the presidio, before 1875. The portico of the mission is pictured prominently at center in front of which several posts have been driven into the ground and through which several adobe walls can be seen. It's terracotta-tiled roof has collapsed in a section to the left, like the roof of the adobe structure that obscures it in the left foreground. Scrub vegetation grows along the dusty court in front.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7160
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Juan Buenaventura taken by photographer Edward Vischer, Ventura, ca.1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Juan Buenaventura taken by photographer Edward Vischer, Ventura, ca.1875. Wrought-iron fence flanks either side of the sequential entranceways to the main building of the adobe mission, which stands a little right of center, its bell tower connect to it at the right side. Both the roof and bell tower are topped by crosses. To the left, a cemetery can be seen, overgrown by weeds, in front of which a stone wall stands extending from the main building. It features an arched wooden gate and an overhang made from terracotta tiles. The street in front of the mission is unpaved. Hills are visible in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14618
title: Exterior view of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the choir window and ruined baptistry, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the exterior view of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing the choir window and ruined baptistry, ca.1900. The edge of the tile roof is visible. Plants are beginning to overgrow the ruined walls.; "Capistrano choir window 1900. Ruined Baptistry on east side of Fr. Serra's 1777 adobe church. Under this Baptistry was buried Don Jose Antonio Yorba founder of the oldest Spanish Calif. family in the province in 1825." -- A. Yorba
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m7222
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting a cavalcade in front of the Mission San Juan Buenaventura, May, 1865

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting a cavalcade in front of the Mission San Juan Buenaventura, May, 1865. A group of three horsemen make their way down a dirt path in the foreground, while two other drive cattle and horses further down. The mission and its bell tower are visible at the foot of the hills which come in from the right in the distance. Text written-in below the caption identifies the area and also reads "Founded 1782", "A Cavalcade of the Good Olden Times", and "F.G. Becher and Alfred Robinson, on a trip northward with vaqueros and pemonta(?) from Miss. [...]".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3716
title: Exterior view of the Mission San Luis Obispo taken by the photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission San Luis Obispo taken by the photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875. The southern front entrance to the mission is shown, a wall gate opening up into the main building's archway doors. Three bells hang from openings on the second floor of the adobe. To the left, a second building is built into the wall, showing a small window and terracotta-tiled roof. Writing is painted on the front of the main building, which reads "Creata MDCCLXXII" and "Reparata MDCCCLXXII". Other text is pictured but illegible. Tree foliage hangs over the wall near the gate. The strip in front of the mission may be a sidewalk, as a drop is visible in the foreground, although no ground is pictured beyond it.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m13118
title: Portrait of Juan Largo and Jonathan Trumbull Warner with a group of mission Indians, Christmas 1875

description: Photographic portrait of Juan Largo and Jonathan Trumbull Warner with a group of mission Indians, Christmas 1875. The photograph, taken (?) by Edward Vischer as a gift to his friend William H. Hellton, shows ten posed in three rows. Most of the men are Native Americans, however, one man, the second from the left in the back row, is a Caucasian man with a thick head of hair and a long beard. He wears a suit. The foremost row is constituted of only one man, who lays on his side with his hat in hand. Four men follow in the next row, all dressed in similar lightly colored shirts, the third from the left with a mustache that connects to his sideburns. Of the men in the back row, the third from the left wears a checkered shirt and folds his arms across his chest. The rest hold their hands at their sides, folded near their waist or behind their back. Picture file card reads "Wm. H. Hellton from his friend Edward Vischer.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m3782
title: Painting by Edward Vischer depicting travelers approaching the  western part of the Mission San Luis Obispo on the landing, ca.1864-1873

description: Photograph of a painting by Edward Vischer depicting travelers approaching the town and western part of the Mission San Luis Obispo on the landing, ca.1864-1873. Two horsemen ride out from the buildings of the mission to meet the group of horsemen coming in from the dirt road at the left with their train of pack mules. Small cabins and barn-style longhouses are visible in the background, in front of mountains. Rocks and trees are visible in the right foreground. Text written below the image identifies the date and area.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m30523
title: View of mountains with trees in the foreground and orchards in the valley below, [s.d.]

description: Photograph of a view of mountains with trees in the foreground and orchards in the valley below, [s.d.]. Dry plants and trees characterize the foreground with a plant-covered hillside behind them at left. A small road cuts through the orchards that grow in rows in the valley below at center. Bare mountains stand in the right background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4402
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting "Tiger Town" (Barrio del Tigre), an area on the northern outskirts of San Luis Obispo, ca.1865

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting "Tiger Town" (Barrio del Tigre), an area on the northern outskirts of San Luis Obispo, ca.1865. A man on horseback leads a second horse in the foreground left of center, while a second man in a poncho tends his own horse to the right. The town in the background stands at the foot of some small mountains, comprised of dilapidated adobe and wood shacks. A mother stands with her children in the right background. Text written-in at the bottom of the frame reads "Californian Low Life in the Southern Counties" and identifies the area. Vischer's signature, which usually appears in the bottom right of his drawings, is not visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11886
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the relais stables of the California Southern Overland Stage Line in San Luis Obispo, ca.1865-1875

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the relais stables of the California Southern Overland Stage Line in San Luis Obispo, ca.1865. Several abandoned stage coaches stand in the left foreground near a pack of unsaddled horses, while a full coach hitched to a train of six horses makes its way tot the wooden barns in the distance, where a palm tree can be seen. A pile of something is contained by wooden grid work at the extreme left, in front of a rock face. Mountains are visible in the background. Text written-in below the image reads, "California Life and Traffic" and identifies the subject and area. Vischer's signature, which usually appears in the lower right of his drawings, is not visible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m11884
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Southern Overland Stage Station and watering place in San Luis Obispo, ca.1865

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Southern Overland Stage Station and watering place in San Luis Obispo, ca.1865. The stage coach moves along the mountains to the left, a lone horseman farther down the road to the right, while a cowboy waters two of his horses at a wooden well in the foreground, which has a bucket suspended by a long, weighted pole. Two more horses are visible with a man entering the wooden building to the right, which likely represents the station. Children play, sitting on rocks beneath the flagpole to the extreme right, where the American flag flies. Signs on the wooden building read "$10,000 Race" and "Circus". Text written-in below the image identifies the area and place.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4666
title: Exterior view of the Mission Santa Ynez (Inez?) taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the Mission Santa Ynez (Inez?) taken by photographer Edward Vischer, before 1875. The entrance and main building of the mission stand to the right, its left half (in which the wooden arched door is visible) smoothe-surfaced while a bell tower to the right is evidently made of brick. A portico extends from the main building to the left distance, where it meets the hills in the background. Its roof is covered by terracotta tiles.; Photoprint reads: "Not by Vischer -- he made drawings -- see Bancroft Library, Berkeley".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4918
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer of the Mission San Miguel and the ruins of the Casa Principal, ca.1864

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer of the Mission San Miguel and the ruins of the Casa Principal, ca.1864. Eight men on horseback make their way across the foreground of the image with walkers and a dog among them. In the background, the barn-style main building of the mission and its attached portico are visible. The portico itself terminates in a secondary building and a shack, which appears to be in disrepair. Other livestock are visible as well in the field in front. Text written-in below the image identifies the area and place as well as reading "(the interior yet kept in good condition)", "Sheriff and posse conducting a band of criminals towards San Luis Obispo.", "(The northrooms in 1852 the scent of the murder of the Reed family by outlaws)" and "A scene of the starvation of cattle in the summer of 1862 during the great drought.".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12983
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Casa del Paso de Robles at the Mission San Miguel, May, 1865

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Casa del Paso de Robles at the Mission San Miguel, May, 1865. Three horses, two oxen and a dog are enclosed by a makeshift post-and-rail fence in the left foreground, with two cowboys on horseback to their right. A crumbling two-story adobe building is visible in the left background, on hilly terrain. It features an overhanging roof covered in terracotta tiles that extends from its first level on the right. Text written-in below the image identifies the site and area, and also reads "near the Sheep-Farm of James Blackburn", as well as "Meeting of neighbouring stock-owners at general rodeo for the separation of heads".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m14619
title: Interior view of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing two worshippers kneeling in front of the altar, ca.1900

description: Photograph of the interior view of Mission San Juan Capistrano, showing two worshippers kneeling in front of the altar, ca.1900. Pews on either side form an aisle up the middle. The two women worshippers are on a raise platform directly in front of the altar with their backs to the camera. Several candle sticks are on the altar. Sunshine comes in the window at right.; "Worshippers at the Altar (wearing rebozos) M. San Juan Capistrano. 1900. Above is oil painting of San Juan Capistrano, an original painting of this mission." -- A. Yorba
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12981
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting Mexican vaqueros in the ruins of Mission San Margarita, ca.1864

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting Mexican vaqueros in the ruins of Mission San Margarita, ca.1864. At center, a vaquero tends his horse, which dwarfs him, while two others situate themselves in the ruins to the right, preparing for a rodeo. Fallen support beams and piled debris fill the court made by the adobe mission buildings. Text written-in below the image identifies the site. More text is written as part of the image.; The in-image text reads: "Casa de St. Margarita Description. It was divided into store-rooms for different kinds of grains and apartments for the accommodation of the majordomo servants and wayfarers. At one end there was the chapel and [...] lodging rooms for the priest, who needed to stay here during harvest time and the holy priests [...] the friars [...] missions (San Miguesl and San Luis Obispo) occasionally met there, to acknowledge each other their sins.", and "Alfred Robinson's 'Life in California', page 82".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4373
title: View looking northeast on Olive Street in Burbank, showing the Times building, ca.1898

description: Photograph of a view looking northeast on Olive Street in Burbank, showing the Times building, ca.1898. The Times building is visible to the left along the unpaved roads, along with a few two-story Victorian-style buildings that appear to be hotels. To the right, scrub vegetation is growing over a flat stretch of dusty ground while utility poles line the road, reaching to the mountains in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m4921
title: Drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Mission San Jose in upper California, ca.1866

description: Photograph of a drawing by Edward Vischer depicting the Mission San Jose in upper California, ca.1866. Horse-drawn carriages and carts move along the dirt road to the left while a small man in a poncho leads his horse away from the hitching post at right, which is situated next to the mission's picket fence. The mission is partially visible behind it and a line of shrub foliage, showing a main, two-story adobe building topped by a cross to the left, and a long one-story annex to its right which extends further to have a dilapidated roof with terracotta tiles. Text written-in below the image identifies the area and site, and reads: "drawn August 16, 1866". Picture file card reads "The right side of picture, where the flagpole stands, is where the first California State Legislature Met--1849.".