No. 284 · Frontier & Desert Landscapes

San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona, 1902

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Photographed by Detroit Publishing Company · 1902 · Tucson, Arizona

San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona, 1902 (Detroit Publishing Company): The white church of Mission San Xavier del Bac stands

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San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona, 1902

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The story

The white church of Mission San Xavier del Bac stands in the desert south of Tucson, on the Tohono O'odham Nation, with its domed west bell tower, carved front and unfinished east tower. Jesuit Father Eusebio Francisco Kino first came to the O'odham village of Wa:k (Bac) in 1692. The present church was built under Franciscan direction from 1783 to 1797; the money ran out before the east tower got its dome, and it was never finished. In this 1902 view that tower is still bare brick (it was first plastered in 1906). People call the mission "the White Dove of the Desert," and it was named a National Historic Landmark. Detroit Photographic Co. made the color with the Swiss photochrom process, printing a black-and-white negative through a separate lithographic stone for each color.

About the photographer

Photographer · 1895–1924

Detroit Publishing turned black-and-white negatives into color with the Swiss photochrom process, one lithographic stone for each color.

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Details

Catalog: No. 284
Date: 1902
Place: Tucson, Arizona
Archive: Photochrom Print Collection

Source: Library of Congress, Photochrom Print Collection, LC-DIG-ppmsca-18202. No known restrictions on publication. Call number LOT 13923, no. 394. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 53878. Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co.

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Paper: 100% cotton rag archival paper
Inks: Pigment inks
Glazing: UV acrylic. Museum anti-reflective acrylic is $49 more
Plate: Engraved brass, with the story and an optional personal line
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