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Photograph shows the ruins of Mission Santa Clara after the October 1926 fire. A bell lies in a pile of charred debris. Through a brick archway in the background, a man is visible. Handwritten in pencil on the verso of the photograph: "Fire damaged Santa Clara Mission." Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded in 1777. The current location in Santa Clara is the fifth site of the Mission; work began on this site in 1822 and the church was dedicated in 1825. In 1861 the adobe facade of the church was overlaid with an Italianate Victorian facade. This church was destroyed by fire in October 1926. It was rebuilt on the same site and consecrated in 1929. From: "Santa Clara University - Mission History" http://www.scu.edu/missionchurch/history/index.cfm (accessed 10/10/11) and "Mission Santa Clara Facade, 1866" http://content.scu.edu/u?/claravision,109 (accessed 10/10/11). Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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