Picture postcard, "San Carlos Mission (El Carmel), Founded 1770. Near Monterey, 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 San Carlos Mission (El Carmel) was printed by the Van Ornum Colorprint Company in Los Angeles, Calif. using photomechanical processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Van Ornum Colorprint Company (1908-1921) was one of many picture postcard publishing companies producing scenes in California.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Carlos Borroméo del rio Carmelo was founded in 1770 in Carmel Valley. It was the second of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission, built to convert American Indians of the Esselen and Ohlone, or Costanoa, tribes to Catholicism, was restored to its present condition in 1882 by the parish church of Monterey.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The mission continues to serve as a parish church today.
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: 1986.0639.0477
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.0477
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Relief Processes
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