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Description
Photograph of a Father Junipero Serra daguerreotype and certification from 1785, May 23, 1853. Copy of an original daguerreotype from the Santa Barbara Museum of a painting at the Convent of San Fernando, Mexico. Father Junipero Serra can be seen from the chest up. Overlaying part of the portrait is a handwritten, signed note: "I certify the accompanying daguerreotype to be a copy from a painting in the Convent of San Fernando in Mexico -- entitled 'Verdadero Retrato del apostolico Padre Predicador Fr. Junipero Serra -- Natural de la Villa de Petra en el reino de Mallorca' [...] 'Mariannus Guerrero fecit a 1785[']. -- Legation of the U.S., Wm. Rich, Sec. of Legation, U.S.A., Mexico, May 23d 1853".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 17 x 22 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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