View of Mission San Diego de Alcala in a decaying state. A lone bell sits where the campanario that held five bells once stood. Two males appear in the foreground. The photograph is a sepia image with a yellow border. Printed on recto: Ruins of Mission San Diego de Alcala. Founded July 16, 1769 by Father Junipero Serra. This was the first mission in the California chain. The mission was named for Saint Didacus of Alcala. 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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