Picture postcard, "Mission Santa Clara de Asis, California - 1777"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914
name: label: graphic artist
content: Eno, I. L.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission Santa Clara de Asis was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes. It was published in about 1914 by the I. L. Eno Company in San Diego, Calif.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Chicago-based Curt Teich Company printed postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with several publishers. It used the term "photochrom" and later "colortone" to describe its color printing processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The postcard portrays an image of daily life at the Mission Santa Clara soon after its founding in 1777. The mission was the eighth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823. It was established to convert American Indians of the Bay Miwok, Tamyen, or Costanoan, and Yokuts tribes to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: A college and a church now occupy the original site, located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay.
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: 1986.0639.0323
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0639.0323
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
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