Picture postcard, "Interior San Fernando Mission, Founded 1797, San Fernando, California"
date: label: date made
content: 1908-1921
name: label: graphic artist
content: Van Ornum Colorprint Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission San Fernando was printed by the Van Ornum Colorprint Company in Los Angeles, Calif. in about 1910, using photomechanical processes. The Van Ornum Colorprint Company (1908-1921) was one of many picture postcard publishing companies producing California landmark scenes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Fernando was founded in 1797, in the San Fernando Valley. It was the seventeenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions to be established in California between 1769 and 1823, and was built to convert American Indians of the Tataviam and Tongva tribes to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today it serves as a working parish chapel and a museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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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: 1986.0639.491
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0639.491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Relief Processes
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
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