Picture postcard, "Mission Santa Barbara, California - 1786"
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914
name: label: graphic artist
content: Eno, I. L.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of Mission Santa Barbara was printed by the Curt Teich Company of Chicago using photomechanical processes. It was published in about 1914 by the I. L. Eno Company in San Diego, Calif.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Curt Teich Company manufactured postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with several publishers. The company used the term "photochrom," and later "colortone," to describe its color printing processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission Santa Barbara was founded in 1786, the tenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was built to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish church, a museum, a Franciscan friary, or monastery, and a retreat site.
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: 1986.0639.0327
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0639.0327
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