Picture postcard, "Mission San Antonio, California. Founded 1771"
Picture postcard, "Mission San Antonio, California. Founded 1771"
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- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of Mission San Antonio was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."
- The company, previously known as the Detroit Photographic Company, was first listed in Detroit city directories in 1888. Its manager, William A. Livingstone, invited 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 Antonio de Padua, founded in 1771, is located south of King City. It was the third of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823, and was built to convert American Indians of the Salinan tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves a parish church.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- postcard
- Object Type
- 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
- 1986.0639.2052
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.2052
- 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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