Picture postcard, "Ruins of Fray Junipero Serra's Death Chamber, Carmel Mission, California. Founded 1770"
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of the "Ruins of Fray Junípero Serrá's Death Chamber" was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."
- The Detroit Publishing Company previously known as the Detroit Photographic Company was first listed in Detroit city directories in 1888. Its manager, William A. Livingstone, invited the famous landscape photographer William Henry Jackson to join the company as a partner in 1897. Jackson brought with him his own photographic images which would be used by the company.
- Mission San Carlos Borroméo del rio Carmelo, or the Old Mission Chapel, was established in 1770 by Fr. Junípero Serra, the Spanish Franciscan who founded twenty-one missions in California between 1769 and 1823. San Carlos was the second of these missions which were established to convert American Indians of the Esselen and Ohlone, Costanoan, tribes to Catholicism. Father Serra died at the Carmel Mission on August 28, 1784, at the age of 71.
- Today the mission serves as a parish church.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- ca 1910
- graphic artist
- Detroit Publishing Co.
- place made
- United States: Michigan, Detroit
- associated place
- United States: California
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.5 cm x 14 cm; 3 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.2016
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.2016
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- California Mission Postcards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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