Mission San Diego de Alcalá/Gallery
(PD) Drawing: A.B. Dodge
Natives utilize a primitive plow to prepare a field for planting near Mission San Diego de Alcalá.
PD Painting
A painting of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it appeared in 1848 depicts the original campanario ("bell tower"), before it was reduced to rubble. The painting also shows the enclosed front portico.![PD Diagram The "Alemany Plat" prepared by the U.S. Land Surveyor's Office to define the property restored to the Catholic Church by the Public Land Commission, later confirmed by presidential proclamation on May 23, 1862.[1]](/wiki/images/thumb/b/b0/SD_restored_property.png/177px-SD_restored_property.png)
PD Diagram
The "Alemany Plat" prepared by the U.S. Land Surveyor's Office to define the property restored to the Catholic Church by the Public Land Commission, later confirmed by presidential proclamation on May 23, 1862.[1]![(PD) Image: Abraham Lincoln President Abraham Lincoln's signature as it appeared on the United States Patent that restored the Mission property to the Catholic Church in 1862. This is one of the few documents that the President signed as "A. Lincoln" instead of his customary "Abraham Lincoln." [2]](/wiki/images/thumb/4/44/A_Lincoln.png/300px-A_Lincoln.png)
(PD) Image: Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln's signature as it appeared on the United States Patent that restored the Mission property to the Catholic Church in 1862. This is one of the few documents that the President signed as "A. Lincoln" instead of his customary "Abraham Lincoln." [2]
(PD) Photo: Keystone-Mast Company
Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it stood circa 1900.
(PD) Painting: Benjamin Chambers Brown
"The Mission," circa 1915.
(PD) Painting: Will Sparks
Mission San Diego de Alcalá, between 1933 and 1937.
(PD) Painting: Will Sparks
San Diego Chapel, between 1933 and 1937.
(PD) Drawing: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey
An elevation drawing of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as prepared by the U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
(PD) Drawing: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey
A floor plan drawing of the chapel and caretaker's office at Mission San Diego de Alcalá as prepared by the U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
(CC) Photo: Robert A. Estremo
The main façade and campanile ("bell wall") at Mission San Diego de Alcalá as they appeared in 1987.
© Image: City of San Diego, California
The official seal of the City of San Diego in part reflects the town's historical ties to the mission from whence it got its name.![(PD) Photo: United States Navy USNS Mission San Diego (T-AO-121) was the eleventh of twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers built during World War II for service in the United States Navy, and the only U.S. Naval vessel to have borne the name.[3]](/wiki/images/thumb/8/8b/Mission_San_Diego_T-AO-121.jpg/300px-Mission_San_Diego_T-AO-121.jpg)
(PD) Photo: United States Navy
USNS Mission San Diego (T-AO-121) was the eleventh of twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers built during World War II for service in the United States Navy, and the only U.S. Naval vessel to have borne the name.[3]
(PD) Painting: Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo
The namesake of the City, Didacus of Alcalá: Saint Didacus in Ecstasy Before the Cross.
![PD Diagram The "Alemany Plat" prepared by the U.S. Land Surveyor's Office to define the property restored to the Catholic Church by the Public Land Commission, later confirmed by presidential proclamation on May 23, 1862.[1]](/wiki/File:SD_restored_property.png)
![(PD) Image: Abraham Lincoln President Abraham Lincoln's signature as it appeared on the United States Patent that restored the Mission property to the Catholic Church in 1862. This is one of the few documents that the President signed as "A. Lincoln" instead of his customary "Abraham Lincoln." [2]](/wiki/File:A_Lincoln.png)
![(PD) Photo: United States Navy USNS Mission San Diego (T-AO-121) was the eleventh of twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers built during World War II for service in the United States Navy, and the only U.S. Naval vessel to have borne the name.[3]](/wiki/File:Mission_San_Diego_T-AO-121.jpg)
