Picture postcard, "San Gabriel Mission, Founded 1771 near Los Angeles, California"
date: label: date made
content: 1908-1921
name: label: graphic artist
content: Van Ornum Colorprint Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This postcard view of San Gabriel Mission was printed using photomechanical processes by the Van Ornum Colorprint Company (1908-1921) in Los Angeles, Calif. The company was one of many picture postcard publishing establishments working in California.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was founded in 1771, near the city of Montebello in Southern California. It was the fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was established to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicism. It was moved in 1775 to its present location outside of downtown Los Angeles.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Today the mission continues to minister to an American Indian community with 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: 1986.0639.0473
label: accession number
content: 1986.0639
label: catalog number
content: 1986.639.0473
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