[High altar of San Xavier del Bac Mission, Tucson, Arizona] – Historic Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[High altar of San Xavier del Bac Mission, Tucson, Arizona] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[High altar of San Xavier del Bac Mission, Tucson, Arizona]
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The high altar at San Xavier del Bac Mission, a Spanish colonial church on the Tohono O'odham reservation south of Tucson, Arizona, is the focus here, rather than the building's exterior that visitors usually photograph. Founded by Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino in the late 1600s, the mission's present church was begun in the 1780s under Franciscan direction and is noted for its ornate Baroque and Churrigueresque decoration. The caption card gives no date for this print, but it belongs to the Library of Congress's large holdings of American photographs, where interior views of such mission churches were often made to document their artwork for scholars and visitors.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,496 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119319 |
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