View of the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano. The damaged Great Stone Church appears on the right. Left of the church is the campanario (bell wall) that held four bells. The photograph is a sepia image with a yellow border. Printed on recto: Ruins of the old Mission San Juan Capistrano. Founded November 1, 1776 by Father Junipero Serra. This was the seventh mission in the California chain. Named for Saint John of Capistrano, Italy, a fourteenth century theologian. Many of the buildings within the mission have been restored over the decades. The Great Stone Church was never restored, but seismic retrofit of the ruins has been completed. This image has a yellow border and is mounted on a gray card. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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