Hand-written notes taken verbatum by Vischer from Alfred Robinson's description of the Bay of San Francisco (1846). Note paper folded in half and hand-sewn with string. Notes include descriptions of the San Francisco Bay, the Mission Dolores, Santa...
California--Pictorial works; Landscape; Gold mines and mining; Frontier and pioneer life; Ranch life; Farm life; Livestock; Missions; Missionary settlements; Indians of North America--California; Coast Ranges; Pacific Ocean; Whaling; Ships; Voyages...
The third of three books depicting Northern and Central California through art. Included are photographed drawings by Vischer and others of miscellaneous subjects. The book consists of albumen photographs mounted on paper and pasted onto individual...
Photographic print of a pencil drawing. Information beneath title reads: "Sheriff and posse conducting a band of criminals towards San Luis Obispo. (The northrooms in 1852 the scene of the murder of the Reed family by outlaws). A scene of the...
Mission La Purisima Concepcion (Calif.); Housing; Landscape drawing; Missions; Missionary settlements; Mills and mill-work; Spanish mission buildings United States; Views;
Pencil drawing of the mission and nearby surroundings on lined paper. Sketch includes Spanish labeled depictions of the following: the church, housing for the Fathers, housing for escorts and Indians, a corral, and the detailed drawing of the...
Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, Calif.); Landscape drawing; Missions; Spanish mission buildings United States; Views; Cemeteries; Housing; Pencil drawing; Missionary settlements
Pencil drawing of the mission in 1820 and its nearby surroundings on lined paper. Depictions referenced in drawing are: a detailed description of the mission, a fruit orchard, houses of the escort, an artificial lake used to water the orchard, a...
Pencil drawing of the mission and nearby surroundings during 1817-1834 on lined paper with labels and notations in Spanish. Depictions include the following: detailed description of the Mission and its buildings, housing for troops and their...
Landscape drawing; Missions; Spanish mission buildings United States; Views; Mission San Francisco Solano (Sonoma, Calif.); Pencil drawing; Missionary settlements
Original pencil drawing on lined paper of an aerial view of the mission and its nearby surroundings in 1832. Particular areas of the mission have been labeled in Spanish: the rooms of the fathers, the bell tower, the church, the cemetery, the...
Church buildings; Missions; Portrait photography; Spanish mission buildings United States; Mission San Rafael Arcangel; Pencil drawing; Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890; Missionary settlements
Pencil drawing of the mission in 1831 drawn for Senior General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1878. This original bosquejo, or sketch, of mission buildings is signed in the lower right corner. A photograph of M. G. Vallejo is located in the upper...
California--History; Missions; Spanish mission buildings--United States; Missionary settlements; Indians of North America--California
Collection of photographs of missions and drawings. Provides images of building facades and interiors, as well as rural scenes and missionary settlement life.