Picture postcard, "Carmel Mission, Near Monterey, Calif."

Object Details

Description (Brief)

This postcard view of Carmel Mission in Monterey was printed by the Detroit Publishing Company in about 1910, using a copyrighted photolithographic process called "Photostint."

The Detroit Publishing Company, previously known as the Detroit Photographic Company, was first listed in Detroit city directories in 1888. William A. Livingstone, its manager, invited the 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 Carlos Borroméo del rio Carmelo, or the Old Mission Chapel, was established in 1770 by Fr. Junípero Serra, the Spanish Franciscan founder of twenty-one missions in California between 1769 and 1823. San Carlos was the second of these missions, established to convert American Indians of the Esselen and Ohlone, or Costanoan, tribes to Catholicism.

Today the mission serves as a parish church.

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Museum of American History

graphic artist

Detroit Publishing Co.

date made

ca 1910

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

print

Object Type

Photomechanical Lithographic Processes

Photomechanical Lithographic Processes

Other Terms

print; Halftone