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Picture postcard, "San Carlos Mission, Monterey, California. Founded 1770"

date made
ca 1910
graphic artist
Detroit Publishing Co.
ID Number
1986.0639.2053
accession number
1986.0639
catalog number
1986.639.2053
Description (Brief)
This postcard view of Mission San Carlos 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 Carlos Borroméo del rio Carmelo is located near the town of Monterey, the original capital of Spanish and later Mexican California. Mission San Carlos was the second of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823, and was built to convert 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