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Photograph shows nuns worshipping in the private chapel at the Convent of Dominican Sisters at Mission San Jose. Three nuns of the Dominican Sisters of the Queen of the Holy Rosary arrived in San Francisco in 1876. After the 1906 earthquake, the Motherhouse of the order moved from San Francisco to Mission San Jose. From "Dominican Sisters of San Jose - Our History" http://www.msjdominicans.org/ourStory/ourhistory.aspx (accessed 10/7/11). For another view of the chapel interior, see the University of Southern California's digital image http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/chs-m16537.html?x=1318018443943 (accessed 10/7/11). Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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