Picture postcard, "San Gabriel Mission, Founded 1771, San Gabriel, California"
date: label: date made
content: 1925-1935
name: label: graphic artist
content: California Postcard Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of San Gabriel Mission was printed using photomechanical processes by the California Postcard Company (1925-1935) in Los Angeles, California.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was founded on September 8, 1771, near the city of Montebello, California. The fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823, it was established to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicism. The mission was moved in 1775 to its present location in Los Angeles County.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission includes a church and a museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
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: 1986.0639.0724
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0639.0724
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