Picture postcard, "Monterey. Old Mission Chapel"
Picture postcard, "Monterey. Old Mission Chapel"
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- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of the Old Mission Chapel at Monterey was printed using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint" by the Detroit Photographic Company in about 1899.
- The Detroit Photographic Company was first listed in Detroit city directories in 1888 and was managed by William A. Livingstone. 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 de Carmelo, or the Old Mission Chapel, was founded in 1770 by Fr. Junípero Serra, the Spanish Franciscan missionary associated with twenty-one missions in California. Mission San Carlos was the second of the missions founded between 1769 and 1823 for the conversion of American Indians of the Esselen and Ohlone, or Costanoan, tribes to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves as a parish church.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- postcard
- Object Type
- Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
- Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
- Other Terms
- postcard; Halftone
- date made
- 1899
- graphic artist
- Detroit Photographic 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
- 1986.0639.1998
- catalog number
- 1986.639.1998
- accession number
- 1986.0639
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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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