Picture postcard, "San Buenaventura Mission, Calif., Founded 1782, Showing Old Wall Used as Protection Against Indians"
Object Details
- graphic artist
- Detroit Publishing Co.
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of Mission San Buenaventura was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."
- The 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 San Buenaventura, located in the coastal city of Ventura, was the ninth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. It was established to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves as a parish church and a museum.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1910
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.2048
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.2048
- 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_828331
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-5e5a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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