Spanish missions in California/Gallery
(PD) Drawing: J.R. Bartlett
California Indians catching salmon.
(PD) Drawing: Thomas de Suria
Costanoans fight a Spanish soldier in 1791.
(PD) Drawing: José Cardero
A native of the Monterey area. The Costanoan people spoke eight languages, each of which is considered to designate a different tribelet.
(PD) Drawing: F.W. Egluffstein
Cahuilla Indians, circa 1856. The Cahuilla were called támikawicam which means "people from the east" by the Gabrieliño.
(PD) Drawing: Artist unknown
Diegueño Indians traveling. The San Diego area Indians resisted the Spanish and were slow to accept Christianity.
(PD) Drawing: Charles Nahl
An Indian woman gathering acorns.
(PD) Drawing: A.T. Agate
Indians pounding acorns.
(PD) Drawing: J.D. Smillie
Miwok making chemuck, a kind of stew.
(PD) Drawing: Stephen Powers
Acorn granaries in a Miwok village.
(PD) Painting: Louis Choris
"Inhabitants of California" by Louis Choris.
(PD) Painting: Louis Choris
Natives dancing at Mission Dolores, 1816.
(PD) Drawing: Louis Choris
Indians play a stick game at Mission Dolores.![(PD) Photo: Charles C. Pierce The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia (or "Pala Mission" as it is known today) circa 1900. Pala is architecturally unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. It is also the only outpost that has ministered without interruption to the Mission Indians for whom it was originally built since its inception, and is the only "sub-mission" still intact.[1]](/wiki/images/thumb/7/7a/CHS-46640.jpg/300px-CHS-46640.jpg)
(PD) Photo: Charles C. Pierce
The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia (or "Pala Mission" as it is known today) circa 1900. Pala is architecturally unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. It is also the only outpost that has ministered without interruption to the Mission Indians for whom it was originally built since its inception, and is the only "sub-mission" still intact.[1]![(PD) Photo: Charles C. Pierce Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is home to with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) planted in California in 1830, visible at right behind the arches in the above photograph (taken circa 1900).[2]](/wiki/images/thumb/f/fa/CHS-2097.jpg/199px-CHS-2097.jpg)
(PD) Photo: Charles C. Pierce
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is home to with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) planted in California in 1830, visible at right behind the arches in the above photograph (taken circa 1900).[2]![(PD) Photo: Joe Radigan MACM / United States Navy Between 1944 and 1945, twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers were built (two additional vessels were converted to distilling ships after their keels had been laid).[3] Many of the ships, such as the USNS Mission Capistrano (T-AO-112) shown above, served with the United States Navy during World War II and on into the Cold War.](/wiki/images/thumb/1/11/USNS_Mission_Capistrano.jpg/300px-USNS_Mission_Capistrano.jpg)
(PD) Photo: Joe Radigan MACM / United States Navy
Between 1944 and 1945, twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers were built (two additional vessels were converted to distilling ships after their keels had been laid).[3] Many of the ships, such as the USNS Mission Capistrano (T-AO-112) shown above, served with the United States Navy during World War II and on into the Cold War.
![(PD) Photo: Charles C. Pierce The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia (or "Pala Mission" as it is known today) circa 1900. Pala is architecturally unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. It is also the only outpost that has ministered without interruption to the Mission Indians for whom it was originally built since its inception, and is the only "sub-mission" still intact.[1]](/wiki/File:CHS-46640.jpg)
![(PD) Photo: Charles C. Pierce Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is home to with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) planted in California in 1830, visible at right behind the arches in the above photograph (taken circa 1900).[2]](/wiki/File:CHS-2097.jpg)
![(PD) Photo: Joe Radigan MACM / United States Navy Between 1944 and 1945, twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers were built (two additional vessels were converted to distilling ships after their keels had been laid).[3] Many of the ships, such as the USNS Mission Capistrano (T-AO-112) shown above, served with the United States Navy during World War II and on into the Cold War.](/wiki/File:USNS_Mission_Capistrano.jpg)