Picture postcard, "San Diego Mission, Calif. Founded 1769"
Picture postcard, "San Diego Mission, Calif. Founded 1769"
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- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of San Diego Mission 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 Diego de Alcalá, situated in what is now called Mission Valley, was the first mission established by Fr. Junípero Serra in 1769, and was the first of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. This mission was built to support the conversion of American Indians of the Kumeyaay tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission buildings include 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
- 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
- 1986.0639.2015
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.2015
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- California Mission Postcards
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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