Object Details
- graphic artist
- Detroit Publishing Co.
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of Mission Santa Barbara was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."
- The Detroit Publishing Company (previously known as the Detroit Photographic Company) was first listed in Detroit city directories in 1888. Its manager, William A. Livingstone, invited famous landscape photographer William Henry Jackson to join the company as a partner in 1897. Jackson brought with him his own photographic images, which would be used by the company.
- Mission Santa Barbara was founded on December 4th, 1786, the tenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was established to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves as a parish church and includes a museum, a Franciscan friary, or monastery, and a retreat site.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1910
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.2039
- catalog number
- 1986.639.2039
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- Object Name
- postcard
- Object Type
- 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: Michigan, Detroit
- 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_828322
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-5e52-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
