Picture postcard, "Mission San Gabriel, California, founded in 1775"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1907
name: label: graphic artist
content: Kropp, E. C.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was printed by the E.C. Kropp company using the collotype printing process. The Kropp postcard publishing company was founded in 1898 in Milwaukee, Wis. The publishing name of E. C. Kropp was used between 1907 and 1956.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was founded in 1771 near the city of Montebello, Calif., the fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was built to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicsim. It was moved in 1775 to its present location in Los Angelese County.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the facility contains a church and a museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alice N. and Peter R. Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.24880.081
label: catalog number
content: 24880.081
label: accession number
content: 1978.0801
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Collotype
label: Other Terms
content: Chromolithograph
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