Picture postcard, "Mission Dolores, Founded 1776, California"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
label: date made
content: ca 1913
name: label: graphic artist
content: Curt Teich & Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission Dolores was printed and published by the Curt Teich Company of Chicago using photomechanical processes in about 1913.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The company manufactured postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with many publishers. It used the term "Photochrom,' later "Colortone," to describe its color printing processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission Dolores, originally known as Mission San Francisco de Asís, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco. Founded in 1776, the mission was the sixth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions to be founded in California between 1769 and 1823. It was established to support the conversion of American Indians of the Bay Miwok, Coast Miwok, and Patwin tribes to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission site is run by the Sonoma State Historical Park system. Services are still held in the mission building and in the adjacent, more modern, Basilica.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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: 1986.0639.0375
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0639.0375
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Relief Processes
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
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