Object Details
- publisher
- Eno & Matteson
- graphic artist
- Curt Teich & Co.
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of the Bells of Mission San Juan Capistrano was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes. It was published about 1915 by Eno & Matteson in San Diego to mark the Panama-California Exposition.
- The Curt Teich Company of Chicago printed postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with many publishers. It used the term "Photochrom," later "Colortone," to describe its color printing processes.
- Mission San Juan Capistrano, founded in 1776, is located southeast of Los Angeles. The seventh of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions to be founded in California between 1769 and 1823, it was established to convert American Indians of the Juaneño and Luiseno tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves as a museum and a parish chapel.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1915
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.0599
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.0599
- Object Name
- postcard
- Object Type
- Photomechanical Relief Processes
- Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
- Other Terms
- postcard; Halftone
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 9.5 cm x 14 cm; 3 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in
- place made
- United States: California, San Diego
- associated place
- United States: California
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Cultures & Communities
- Communications
- California Mission Postcards
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_826882
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-5ca4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
