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
date made
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
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Communications
California Mission Postcards
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_828331