Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This postcard view of Mission San Miguel 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. Its manager, William A. Livingstone, invited 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 Miguel Arcángel, located in San Miguel, was the sixteenth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions founded in California between 1769 and 1823. The mission was established to convert American Indians of the Salinan tribe.
- 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
- Object Type
- Photomechanical Lithographic Processes
- Other Terms
- postcard; Halftone
