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Picture postcard, "Mission Santa Cruz, California - 1791"

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Object Details

graphic artist

Eno, I. L.

Description (Brief)

This postcard view of Mission Santa Cruz was printed by the Curt Teich Company using photomechanical processes. It was published in about 1914 by the I. L. Eno Company in San Diego, Calif.
The Chicago-based Curt Teich Company manufactured postcards between 1898 and 1978 in association with several publishers. It used the term "Photochrom" and later "Colortone" to describe its color printing processes.
Mission Santa Cruz, founded in 1791, is located near today's city of Santa Cruz. It was the twelfth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions built in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was built to convert American Indians of the Costanoan and Yokuts tribes to Catholicism.
Today the mission buildings include a parish church, a chapel, and the original dormitory.

Location

Currently not on view

date made

ca 1914

ID Number

1986.0639.0318

catalog number

1986.639.0318

accession number

1986.0639

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, San Diego

associated place

United States: California

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California Mission Postcards

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-85d1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_826604

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