The California missions : a pictorial history / by the Sunset editors ; editor, Dorothy Krell ; chief photographer, John S. Weir ; cover photo., Philip Spencer ; watercolor paintings, France Carpentier.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-319) and index.
Summary
Numerous photographs complement a history of California's twenty-one Spanish missions, historic relics of the industrious colonists.
Contents
Portraits of the missions -- Last outposts of empire -- The missions get under way -- The meaning of the missions -- Decay and rebirth -- San Diego de Alcalá -- San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo -- San Antonio de Padua -- San Gabriel Arcángel -- San Luis Obispo de Tolosa -- San Francisco de Asís -- San Juan Capistrano -- Santa Clara de Asís -- San Buenaventura -- Santa Barbara -- La Purísima Concepción -- Santa Cruz -- Nuestra Señora de la Soledad -- San José -- San Juan Bautista -- San Miguel Arcángel -- San Fernando Rey de España -- San Luis Rey de Francia -- Santa Inés -- San Rafael Arcángel -- San Francisco Solano -- Facts about the California missions.
