Drawing of Santa Barbara Mission, by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883

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Title	Drawing of Santa Barbara Mission, by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883
Description	Photograph of an etching of Santa Barbara Mission (or Mission La Purisima), by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1883. The two-story mission, situated near a hillside, features a lengthy arcade, arched windows, and inclined roofs. A cow (or bull) drawn carriage is traveling is passing through.; "The "Queen of the Missions". On a spring day in 1782 the Padre Presidente of the California Missions, Father Junípero Serra, and the Spanish Governor de Neve founded (as Serra supposed) the presidio and mission of Santa Barbara. Today the mission archives preserve the record book of the mission, which the earnest padre carefully started on that day. But the arbitrary governor would not allow the actual establishment of the mission. A frustrated Father Serra retired to Carmel, where he died two years later on August 28, 1784. Father Fermin Lasuén, one of the missionaries who had arrived with Serra at San Diego, became the new Padre Presidente and the actual founder of Mission Santa Barbara, December 4, 1786. The difficult years were over and the "Golden Age" of the California Missions was dawning. Launched as it was at the beginning of such prosperous times, Santa Barbara had the greatest of good fortune during all its early years. True, an early church was destroyed in the earthquake of 1812, but a new and more impressive edifice was already needed. Santa Barbara's mission church, with its world-famous twin bell towers, boasts of a stone facade patterned after an ancient Latin temple in pre-Christian Rome. The design is traced to a book brought to California by the Franciscans, a Spanish reprint of an architecture book originally published in 27 B.C. This beautiful new church stood firm for over a hundred years until suffering severe damage in an earthquake in 1925. Two years of rebuilding plus later restoration work has maintained the exact original appearance. [...]" -- unknown author.
Subject	Mission Santa Barbara
Subject (adlf)	religious facilities
Subject (file heading)	Mission Santa Barbara; Mission La Purisima Concepcion
Subject (lcsh)	Missions, Spanish
Geographic subject (roadway)	2201 Laguna Street
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara
Geographic subject (county)	Santa Barbara
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1883
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1883
Type	images
Format	glass plate negatives
Format (aacr2)	3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs art
Accession number	5751
Call number	CHS-5751
Microfiche number	1-122-17
Legacy record ID	chs-m2936; USC-1-1-1-14076; USC-1-1-1-3009
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-5751
Archival file	chs_Volume38/CHS-5751.tiff

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