Mission San Diego de Alcalá/Gallery

• 

  (PD) Engraving: Schott, Sorony, and Co.
  During the Mission Period, natives occupying lands near Mission San Diego de Alcalá were referred to as Diegueños by the Spaniards.

• 

  (PD) Drawing: A.B. Dodge
  Natives utilize a primitive plow to prepare a field for planting near Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

• 

  (PD) Image: U.S. Land Surveyor's Office
  The cattle brand used at Mission San Diego.

• 

  (PD) Drawing: Alexander Harmer
  Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776. Missionary Father Pedro Font later described the scene: "...Rivera entered the chapel with drawn sword [in hand]...con la espada desnuda en la mano."

• 

  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.

• 

  (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." 

• 

  (PD) Painting: Henry Chapman Ford
  Mission San Diego de Alcalá, circa 1880-1881.

• 

  (PD) Photo: Keystone-Mast Company

  Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it stood circa 1900.

• 

  (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 partial floor plan drawing of the nave and caretaker's office at Mission San Diego de Alcalá as prepared by the U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.

• 

  (PD) Drawing: Historic American Buildings Survey
  A partial floor plan drawing of the nave, sanctuary, and sacristy at Mission San Diego de Alcalá as prepared by the U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.

• 

  (PD) Drawing: Historic American Buildings Survey
  A partial floor plan drawing of the upper nave and choir balcony at Mission San Diego de Alcalá as prepared by the U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.

• 

  (PD) Drawing: Historic American Buildings Survey
  A floor plan drawing of the upper nave 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. At the time of the Mission's restoration in 1931 only the façade remained relatively intact.

• 

  © 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.

• 

  (PD) Painting: Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo
  The namesake of the City, Didacus of Alcalá: Saint Didacus in Ecstasy Before the Cross.