Picture postcard, "Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, California - 1798"
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 San Luis Rey de Francia was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes. The card was published in about 1914 by the I. L. Eno Company in San Diego, Calif.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Chicago-based Curt Teich Company manufactured printed postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with several publishers. The firm used the term "photochrom" and later "colortone" to describe its color printing processes.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was the eighteenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. Dedicated in 1798, this mission was established to convert American Indians of the Kumeyaay and Luiseno tribes to Catholicism.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission serves as a parish church, a museum, 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: 1986.0639.0312
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.0312
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
label: Object Type
content: Photomechanical Relief 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