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[Mission, Santa Barbara, California] – Historic Print

[Mission, Santa Barbara, California], [between 1910 and 1930] — historic photograph
[Mission, Santa Barbara, California], [between 1910 and 1930]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures [Mission, Santa Barbara, California] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Mission Santa Barbara, founded by Franciscan friars in 1786 and recognized by its twin bell towers, is the subject of this glass-plate negative, made sometime between 1910 and 1930. The photographer is not recorded, and the title was supplied by a cataloger, but the view reflects a period when the California missions were drawing tourists and being celebrated as symbols of the Spanish colonial past. The Detroit Publishing Company produced many scenic views of the West in this era, but this plate carries no company number, so its link to that firm is unconfirmed. The negative entered the collection as a gift in 1949 from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1930]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 7 x 5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. RBL 159" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsMissions.United States--California--Santa Barbara.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan732 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77050

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