Mission La Purísima Concepción (Calif.)

Content Description From the Collection:

Three archives boxes containing thirty years of weekly local history columns written by Mrs. Rouse for the Santa Barbara News-Press newspaper, approximately 1,500 articles. A fourth archives box contains indexes to the columns, autobiographical notes, a selection of columns on the Riviera district where Mrs. Rouse lived, and working notes and drafts of columns.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains photographs of historic sites and architecture and does not include images of building currently part of El Presidio State Park.

Content Description From the Collection: The Early California Lantern Slides consist of 89 glass lantern slides of California missions and landscapes.The collection is mostly a study of both interior and exterior views of most of the California missions, from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in the southwest corner of Calfornia to Mission San Francisco Solano in the north.As a collection, the slides are an interesting study of mission architecture: we can observe the various styles of the...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains photographs of historic sites and architecture and does not include images of building currently part of El Presidio State Park.

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Old Mission Days took place December 4-7 1941. Pearl Chase was the Chair of the Advisory Committe for the event. The scrapbook contains correspondence, announcements from many periodicals, brochures, and maps.