Picture postcard, "Mission San Luis Rey, California. Founded 1798"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: graphic artist
content: Detroit Publishing Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission San Luis Rey was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Detroit Publishing Company, previously known as the Detroit Photographic Company, was first listed in Detroit city directories in 1888. Its manager, William A. Livingstone, invited the famous landscape photographer William Henry Jackson to join the company as a partner in 1897. Jackson brought with him his own photographic images, which would be used by the company.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was the eighteenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. Its dedication ceremonies took place in 1798. The mission was founded to convert American Indians of the Kumeyaay and Luiseno tribes to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish church, a museum, and a retreat site.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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: 1986.0639.2017
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.2017
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
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