Object Details
- graphic artist
- Van Ornum Colorprint Co.
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of San Luis Obispo Mission was printed by Van Ornum Colorprint Company, Los Angeles, Calif. using photomechanical processes.
- The Van Ornum firm (1908-1921) was one of many picture postcard publishing companies producing scenes of California landscape and history.
- Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded in 1772 by Spanish missionaries. It is located in San Luis Obispo. The fifth of twenty one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823, its purpose was to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission serves as a parish church.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1908-1921
- ID Number
- 1986.0639.0481
- accession number
- 1986.0639
- catalog number
- 1986.639.0481
- 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_826767
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-4d42-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
