Picture postcard, "Old Padres spreading the Gospel to the Indians, Old Mission Plaza Church, Los Angeles"
Object Details
- graphic artist
- George Rice & Sons
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of the painting "Old Padres spreading the Gospel to the Indians, Old Mission Plaza Church, Los Angeles" was printed by George Rice & Sons (1879-1993) in Los Angeles, Calif. in 1913 using photomechanical processes.
- Mission Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Ángeles Asistencia was founded in 1784 as an ancillary mission to Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. Mission Nuestra Señora was built to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves as a chapel.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1913
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.0674
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.0674
- 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, Los Angeles
- 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_826957
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-34c9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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