Albumen print of an original painting by Vischer. Presidio, Fort San Jose, Lime Point and Lighthouse, from Black Point. Original for Professor Silliman's collection.
California Description and travel; California History; California, Northern; California Pictorial works; California, Southern; Canyons California; Church property; Coast Ranges; Frontier and pioneer life; Farm life; Franciscans; Indians of North...
Individual photographs of Vischer's drawings and related materials grouped into four sections and dedicated to the Society of California Pioneers. Contains historical perspectives about the Californian Missions, including lists of missions and...
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...
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...
California Description and travel; California History; California, Northern; California Pictorial works; California, Southern; Canyons California; Cedar; Church property; Coast Ranges; Coast redwood; Cypress; Frontier and pioneer life; Farm life;...
The text portion of the book contains three sections, each giving essays and descriptions about the landscape photographs, the trees and forests of California, and its geology, respectively. The next three sections contain individual photographs...
Original manuscript document in Vischer's handwriting. Document unfolds into a facsimile of autographs of missionaries from the Order of San Francisco. Includes Congressional stamp on left-hand corner of title page.