Object Details
- graphic artist
- B. N. Company
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of Mission San Fernando was printed using photomechanical processes by the B. N. Company in about 1915.
- The B. N. Company manufactured color postcards.The company trademark appeared on the back, and consisted of the letters BNCO in white on a black background.
- Mission San Fernando Rey de España, founded in 1797, is located in the San Fernando Valley. It was the seventeenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823. Its purpose was to convert American Indians of the Tataviam and Tongva tribes to Catholicism.
- Today it serves as a parish chapel and a museum.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1915
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.0389
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.0639.0389
- 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
- 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_826675
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-6b3f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
