Picture postcard, "Doorway San Gabriel Mission - 1771"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: graphic artist
content: Wood's Post Cards
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of the entry to Mission San Gabriel was printed by "Wood's" Postcards in Los Angeles, Calif. in about 1910, using the halftone process.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was founded on September 8, 1771, near the present town of Montebello, Calif. It was the fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823 to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicism. The mission was moved in 1775 to its present location in Los Angeles County.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish church and a museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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: 1986.0639.3171
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.3171
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Relief 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