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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: California history cards, mission series
Creator:
Bowman, Mary M.
Creator:
Ellerbe, Rose L.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1320
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 pamphlet, 52 playing cards)
Date: 1905
Language of Material:
English
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Processed by Liza Posas, June 7, 2012. Final processing of collection and publication of finding aid made possible by a grant
from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
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California history cards, mission series, 1905, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.1320.
This collection consist of an informational pamphlet and fifty-two illustrated playing cards. Per the pamphlet "These cards
contain a comprehensive outline history of California under the rule of Spain, beginning with the discovery of the Pacific
Ocean, and including the missions. Each card is illustrated, and views of all the mission are given."
The game is broken up into "books", which consist of four cards each. The books are:
- Book I. Explorers
- Book II. Settlement of California
- Book III. Franciscan Missionaries
- Book IV. Later Explorers
- Book V. Missions I
- Book VI. Missions II
- Book VII. Missions III
- Book VIII. Missions IV
- Book IX. Missions V
- Book X. Missions VI
- Book XI. Presidios and Pueblos
- Book XII. Spanish Governers
- Book XIII. Miscellanoeus
The text was prepared by Mary M. Bowman and Rose L. Ellerbe. The engravings of the half-tone illustrations were done by Mrs.
S.M. Sweet of the Commercial Engraving Company in Los Angeles.
Collection was originally part of the Francis Watkins papers and library, which was donated to the Braun Research Library
in 1987 by Watkins brother-in-law, Mr. A. R. Ameday.
Donated to the Braun Research Library by Mr. A. R. Ameday, 1987.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Catholic Church -- Southwest, New
Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration
California -- History
New Spain
Missions -- California