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San Gabriel Mission Altar, San Gabriel, California


SAN GABRIEL MISSION ALTAR rests beneath six statues brought individually from Spain in the 1790's - 20 years after the Mission's founding. The statue of the Blessed Virgin was a gift of the King and Queen of Spain. Present Mission church was dedicated early in the 19th century and there has been no cessation of religious services these 150 years.
Publisher: Union Oil Co. of California (founded in 1890)
American
1950

Medium/Technique Photochrome on card stock.
Dimensions Horizontal: 8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Gift of Leonard A. Lauder
Accession Number2015.11431
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPostcards

DescriptionBack: divided. Mint. TOUR THE WEST THIS YEAR WITH 76 UNION GASOLINE
UNION OIL COMPANY'S Natural Color Scenes of the West.
MADE IN U.S.A.
ProvenanceBetween 1950 and 2015, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in Europe and the United States; 2015, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)