Picture postcard, "Mission San Gabriel, California, founded in 1775"

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Description (Brief):

This postcard view of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was printed by the E.C. Kropp company using the collotype printing process. The Kropp postcard publishing company was founded in 1898 in Milwaukee, Wis. The publishing name of E. C. Kropp was used between 1907 and 1956.

Description (Brief)

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was founded in 1771 near the city of Montebello, Calif., the fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was built to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicsim. It was moved in 1775 to its present location in Los Angelese County.

Description (Brief)

Today the facility contains a church and a museum.

Date Made: ca 1907

Graphic Artist: Kropp, E. C.

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee

See more items in: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts, Cultures & Communities, Communications, California Mission Postcards

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Credit Line: Alice N. and Peter R. Levin

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: GA.24880.081Catalog Number: 24880.081Accession Number: 1978.0801

Object Name: postcardObject Type: CollotypeOther Terms: Chromolithograph

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

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-10a1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_809337

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