View of wagons in front of Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana. The photograph is a sepia image with a yellow border. Printed on recto: Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana. Founded September 8, 1797 by Father Fermin Lasuen. This was the seventeenth mission in the California chain. The mission was named for Saint Ferdinand, King of Spain. The convento building held the chapel, hospice, kitchen and wine cellar. The church was in a separate building beside the convento. 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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