Picture postcard, "San Luís Obispo De Toloso Mission California. Founded September 1, 1772"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: graphic artist
content: Detroit Publishing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission San Luís Obispo De Toloso was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."
label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Luís Obispo de Tolosa, located in San Luis Obispo County, was founded on September 1, 1772, by Fr. Junípero Serra. It was the fifth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was built to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish church.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
label: associated place
content: United States: California
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Communications
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content: California Mission Postcards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0639.2051
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.2051
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
label: Other Terms
content: postcard; Halftone
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.5 cm x 14 cm; 3 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in