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Photograph shows a panoramic view of Santa Clara College. The Mission Church, its adobe structure overlaid with an Italianate Victorian facade, is located at the center right of the photograph. Santa Clara College (later Santa Clara University) was founded in 1851. Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded in 1777. The current location in Santa Clara is the fifth site of the Mission; work began on this site in 1822 and the church was dedicated in 1825. In 1861 the adobe facade of the church was overlaid with an Italianate Victorian facade. This church was destroyed by fire in October 1926. It was rebuilt on the same site and consecrated in 1929. From: "Santa Clara University - Mission History" http://www.scu.edu/missionchurch/history/index.cfm (accessed 10/10/11) and "Mission Santa Clara Facade, 1866" http://content.scu.edu/u?/claravision,109 (accessed 10/10/11). 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.
Religion Education Mission churches Universities & colleges Panoramic photographs Santa Clara Mission Santa Clara University (Calif.) Architecture, Italian
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