Picture postcard, "Mission San Juan Capistrano, California"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: publisher
content: Eno & Matteson
label: graphic artist
content: Curt Teich & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission San Juan Capistrano was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes. It was published about 1915 by Eno & Matteson in San Diego to coincide with the Panama-California Exposition.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Chicago-based Curt Teich Company printed picture postcards between 1898 and 1978 along with many publishers. The firm used the term "Photochrom," later "Colortone," to describe its color printing processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded in 1776, is located southeast of Los Angeles. The seventh of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823, its purpose was to convert American Indians of the Luiseño tribe to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish chapel and a museum.
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: 1986.0639.0610
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.0610
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 174 cm; 3 3/4 in x 68 1/2 in