Title & Author:

The California missions : a pictorial history / by the Sunset editors ; editor, Dorothy Krell ; chief photographer, John S. Weir ; Historical and Architectural Consultant, Harry Downie; Book design, Adrian Wilson; Color selection design, Joe Seney; cover photo., Philip Spencer ; watercolor paintings, France Carpentier.

Edition:

Soft cover ed.

Publication:

Menlo Park, Calif. : Lane Pub. Co., 1979.

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Series:

A Sunset pictorial
A Sunset book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-319) and index.
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.

Summary:

Numerous photographs complement a history of California's twenty-one Spanish missions, historic relics of the industrious colonists.

ISBN:

037605171X
9780376051714
0376051728
9780376051721
0376051758
9780376051752
0376051752

Subject:

Spanish mission buildings California.
Missions espagnoles (Édifices) Californie.
Spanish mission buildings.
Travel.
California History To 1846.
California Description and travel.
California Description and travel 1951-1980.
Californie Histoire Jusqu'à 1846.
Californie Descriptions et voyages.
California.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Krell, Dorothy.
Sunset.
Sunset pictorial.
Sunset book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 119785
Call No.: W11660; ID:86-B4289
Status: Available