Picture postcard, "The Santa Barbara Mission and Grounds, Founded 1786"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: publisher
content: Eno & Matteson
label: graphic artist
content: Curt Teich & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Santa Barbara Mission was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes and was published about 1915 by Eno & Matteson in San Diego. The postcard was produced in association with the Panama-California Exposition.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Curt Teich Company of Chicago printed postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with many publishers. It used the term "Photochrom," later "Colortone," to describe its color printing processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission Santa Barbara was founded on December 4th, 1786, the tenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. Its purpose was to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish church and includes a museum, a Franciscan friary, or monastery, and a retreat center.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Diego
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: 1986.0639.0597
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.0597
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Relief Processes
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