Picture postcard, "San Diego Mission Palm, Serra Monument in background, Old Town, San Diego, Cal."
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: graphic artist
content: H. L. Christiance Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of the San Diego Mission Palm and the Serra Monument was printed in about 1915 by the H. L. Christiance company in San Diego, Calif. using photomechanical processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: H. L. Christiance was an expert photographer working for the Edward H. Mitchell Company in San Francisco before publishing his own postcards in San Diego.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The postcard image shows one of the four palm trees planted around the time of the founding of the mission in 1769. Two of the four were displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1892 as part of the Horticulture Gardens exhibit.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Diego de Alcalá, situated in what is now called Mission Valley, was the first mission founded by Fr. Junípero Serra in 1769. It was the the first of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823, and was founded to convert American Indians of the Kumeyaay tribe to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission buildings include a parish church.
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: 1986.0639.0672
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.0672
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