Picture postcard, "Mission San Fernando, California"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: graphic artist
content: B. N. Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission San Fernando was printed using photomechanical processes by the B. N. Company in about 1915.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The B. N. Company manufactured color postcards.The company trademark appeared on the back, and consisted of the letters BNCO in white on a black background.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Fernando Rey de España, founded in 1797, is located in the San Fernando Valley. It was the seventeenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823. Its purpose was to convert American Indians of the Tataviam and Tongva tribes to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today it serves as a parish chapel and a museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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: 1986.0639.0389
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0639.0389
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