Postcard showing "San Gabriel Mission, California"
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
name: label: graphic artist
content: Detroit Publishing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard showing "San Gabriel Mission, California" was published as lithography by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1914. The postcard was published as number 12688 of a series of 12000.
label: Description (Brief)
content: From the late 1890s to 1905, the firm was known as the Detroit Photographic Company. Subsequently until the company liquidated their assets in 1932, the firm became the Detroit Publishing Company. William Henry Jackson became the plant manager in 1903, but he did not see the success the firm in the late 1890s due to declining sales during WWI.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The San Gabriel Mission was founded in 1771 in San Gabriel, California.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0639.1997
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 86.639.1997
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: Print; 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