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Mission Era: California Under Spain and Mexico and Reminiscences, ca. 1850-1878

Owning Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

About this Collection

Edward Vischer's was completed in 1878 and bequeathed to Vischer's son Hubert upon the artist's death that same year. The collection contains 49 water-colored drawings primarily featuring California's twenty-one Franciscan missions and their environs. The collection also contains 4 photographic reproductions of drawings, an index to the missions, two title leaves, and the remaining covers of the original album box in which the drawings were presented.... View collection guide.

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