Picture postcard, "San Fernando Mission, Founded 1797, San Fernando, California"
Picture postcard, "San Fernando Mission, Founded 1797, San Fernando, California"
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- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of Mission San Fernando was printed by the Van Ornum Colorprint Company in Los Angeles, Calif. about 1910, using photomechanical processes. Van Ornum (1908-1921) was one of many picture postcard publishing companies producing California landmark scenes.
- Mission San Fernando, in the San Fernando Valley, was founded in 1797. It was the seventeenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions to be built in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was established to convert American Indians of the Tataviam and Tongva tribes to Catholicism.
- Today it serves as a working parish chapel and a museum.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- postcard
- Object Type
- Photomechanical Relief Processes
- Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
- date made
- 1908-1921
- graphic artist
- Van Ornum Colorprint Co.
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- 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
- 1986.0639.0492
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.0639.0492
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- California Mission Postcards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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