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(PD) Painting: Ferdinand Deppe
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in 1832. In the foreground Native Americans (who frequently camped near trading centers such as military forts and missions) live in brush huts, with the Mission in the middle ground, and the San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop. The work is believed to be the earliest known oil landscape of Southern California.
(PD) Painting: Edwin Deakin
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel with snow-covered mountains in the background.
(PD) Painting: Henry Chapman Ford
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, circa 1880-1881.
(PD) Painting: Edwin Deakin
The six-bell campanario ("bell wall") at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 1897.
(PD) Painting: Edwin Deakin
An open stairway leads to the choir loft at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 1897.
(PD) Photo: Keystone-Mast Company
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1900. The trail in the foreground is part of the original El Camino Real.
(PD) Photo: Robert C. Post
A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1905.
(PD) Drawing: Rexford Newcomb
Artist Rexford Newcomb's rendition of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel's original campanile, or bell tower. The details are similar to those of the chapel at Mission Santa Inés.[1]
(PD) Painting: Will Sparks
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, between 1933 and 1937.
(PD) Drawing: Historic American Buildings Survey
A map of the San Gabriel Mission District as prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
(PD) Drawing: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey
A plot plan of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel as prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
(PD) Drawing: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey
A floor plan drawing of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel as prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
(PD) Drawing: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey
Elevation drawings of the chapel and convento at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel as prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
(PD) Drawing: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey
Drawings of the bell tower at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel as prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937.
© Image: City of San Gabriel, California
The official seal of the City of San Gabriel reflects the town's historical ties to the mission from whence it got its name.
Notes and references
- ↑ Baer, p. 127
- ↑ Mission San Gabriel