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First Christian Church, Santa Ana, California – Historic Print

First Christian Church, Santa Ana, California, [between ca. 1890 and 1930] — historic photograph
First Christian Church, Santa Ana, California, [between ca. 1890 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: First Christian Church, Santa Ana, California, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few details accompany this view, but the building itself is the subject: the First Christian Church of Santa Ana, the county seat of Orange County in Southern California. The congregation belonged to the Christian Church movement, often called the Disciples of Christ, which spread across the American West in the decades around 1900 as towns like Santa Ana grew with railroads, citrus groves, and new commercial blocks. The photograph, made sometime between about 1890 and 1930, shows how churches of this era served as prominent civic landmarks in fast-growing California towns, and its architecture and street setting offer useful clues to the period.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and 1930]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1930.
NotesWittemann Collection.
SubjectsProtestant churches--California--Santa Ana--1890-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,035 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-166772

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