Picture postcard, "Mission Santa Clara de Asis, California - 1777"

Description (Brief):

This postcard view of Mission Santa Clara de Asis was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes. It was published in about 1914 by the I. L. Eno Company in San Diego, Calif.

Description (Brief)

The Chicago-based Curt Teich Company printed postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with several publishers. It used the term "photochrom" and later "colortone" to describe its color printing processes.

Description (Brief)

The postcard portrays an image of daily life at the Mission Santa Clara soon after its founding in 1777. The mission was the eighth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823. It was established to convert American Indians of the Bay Miwok, Tamyen, or Costanoan, and Yokuts tribes to Catholicism.

Description (Brief)

A college and a church now occupy the original site, located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay.

Date Made: ca 1914

Graphic Artist: Eno, I. L.

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: California, San DiegoAssociated Place: United States: California

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

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1986.0639.0323Accession Number: 1986.0639Catalog Number: 1986.0639.0323

Object Name: postcardObject Type: Photomechanical Lithographic ProcessesPhotomechanical Relief ProcessesOther Terms: postcard; Halftone

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

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-85d6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_826609

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