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Title: Mission Santa Barbara
Contributor: Unknown (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: San José State University Archives Photograph Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives department. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/special_coll/copyright_info_sc.htm
Description: View of Mission Santa Barbara with its two towers. In foreground are picket fences and an orchard. The photgraph is a sepia image with a yellow border.
Printed on recto: Mission Santa Barbara. Founded December 4, 1786 by Father Fermin Lasuen. This was the tenth mission in the California chain. Named for Saint Barbara. This mission had a complex water system which included dames, reservoirs and aqueducts. It is the only California mission with two similar towers. Also called Santa Barbara, Virgen y Martir and 'Queen of the Missions'. 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.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
4.4 x 7.1 in.
Identifier: islandora:81_1180
filename: ua_mission_015
oclc: 645001878
islandora: 81_1180
Language: English
Subject: Community life
Fences
Orchards
Missions
Santa Barbara Mission
Place: Santa Barbara
California
Relation: San Jose State University Archives Photograph Collection

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