The Mission, Santa Barbara, Cal. / Reed, photo. – Vintage Wall Art
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The Mission, Santa Barbara, Cal. / Reed, photo.
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The Mission Santa Barbara, as this c1890 view by N.H. Reed shows it, is one of the best-known Spanish colonial churches in California, founded by Franciscan friars in 1786 as the tenth mission in the chain stretching up the coast. Reed was a Santa Barbara photographer who sold sets of scenic California views, and this print carries the series marking "No. 3" and a U.S. Copyright Office entry on its reverse. Its twin bell towers and whitewashed walls became a model for the Mission Revival style that spread across the state in the decades after the photograph was made.
| Created / published | c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Cal. Portraits and views." No. 3." |
| Notes | 34388 U.S. Copyright Office. On verso : N.H. Reed |
| Subjects | Santa Barbara Mission--1890. Missions--California--Santa Barbara--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179901 |
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