Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of La Purísima Concepcíon Mission was printed by the Van Ornum Colorprint Company in Los Angeles, Calif. using photomechanical processes.
- The Van Ornum firm (1908-1921) was one of many picture postcard publishing companies producing California landmark scenes.
- Mission La Purísima Concepcíon is located northwest of Santa Barbara in Lompoc, California. It was the eleventh of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823, and was established to convert American Indians of the Chumash tribe to Catholicism.
- Today the mission, along with the Mission San Francisco de Solano in Sonoma, is managed by the California State Park system.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- graphic artist
- Van Ornum Colorprint Co.
- date made
- 1908-1921
- 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
- Object Name
- postcard
- Object Type
- Photomechanical Relief Processes
- Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
- Other Terms
- postcard; Halftone
