View of Mission San Gabriel with it's campanario (bell wall) and pillar-like buttresses with pyramidal finials. A row of low growing palms grow alongside the mission. The photograph is a sepia image with a yellow border. Printed on recto: Mission San Gabriel. Founded September 8, 1771 by Father Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera. This was the fourth mission in the California chain. Named for the Archangel Gabriel. This mission church is the most architecturally distinctive of the California missions with the fortress- like appearance of its side walls. Fortress style churches were typical of churches built on street corners in Mexico. Father Antonio Cruzado designed the church and it mimics his homeland Moorish cathedral in Cordoba Spain. The capped buttresses and long narrow windows are not found in any of the other California missions. 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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