Pre-restoration view of Mission San Antonio de Padua with collapsing roofs and deteriorating walls. The photograph is a sepia image with a yellow border. Printed on recto: Mission San Antonio de Padua. Founded July 14, 1771 by Father Junipero Serra. This was the third mission in the California chain. The mission was named for Saint Anthony. 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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