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Title
Impressive Catholic services
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1954
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Mission San Fernando Rey de Espan~a (originally La Misio´n del Sen~or Fernando, Rey de Espan~a) was the seventeenth mission built in Alto California. It was built in a quadrangle, similar to other missions. Founded by father Fermi´n Lasue´n on September 8, 1797 in Mission Hills, it is located on the former settlement of Encino Rancho. In 1999 is was added to the National Register of Historic Places-Building #71001076. It has also been dedicated as California Historic Landmark #157. It continues to serve as a parish church.
Photograph caption dated November 3, 1954 reads, "As candle bearers stand beside catafalque in cemetery near historic old Mission Church, Rev. Father Joseph MacDonald, center, and other priests join in services that brought out record crowd."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00119803
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d023_f21_i22
CARL0005382722
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/52650
Subject
San Fernando, Rey de Espan~a (Mission : San Fernando, Calif.)
San Fernando, Rey de Espan~a (Mission : San Fernando, Calif.)--Clergy
Catholic Church--Clergy
Men--California--Los Angeles
Clergy--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Boys--California--Los Angeles
Acolytes--California--Los Angeles
Funeral rites and ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Cemeteries--California--Mission Hills (Los Angeles)
Catafalques--California--Los Angeles
Lawns--California--Los Angeles
Ceremonial objects--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Crosses--California--Los Angeles
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles
Trees--California--Los Angeles
Mission Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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