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Indian cemetery at San Fernando Rey de Espan~a Mission
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Description
Order Number
00081884
Title
Indian
cemetery
at
San
Fernando
Rey
de
Espan~a
Mission
Collection ID
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Location/Accession
Missions-San
Fernando
Rey
de
Espan~a.
;
A-003-476
4x5
Date
1959
Physical Description
1
photographic
print
:b&w
;21
x
26
cm
.
Notes
Title
supplied
by
cataloger
.
Historical Data
Founded
by
father
Fermi´n
Lasue´n
on
September
8
,
1797
in
Mission
Hills
,
Mission
San
Fernando
Rey
de
Espan~a
(originally
La
Misio´n
del
Sen~or
Fernando
,
Rey
de
Espan~a)
is
located
on the
former
settlement
of
Encino
Rancho
.
It
was the
seventeenth
mission
built
in
Alto
California
.
It
was
built
in a
quadrangle
,
similar
to
other
missions
, in
which
the
church
makes
up
one
corner
. In
1804
,
nearly
1,000
Indians
lived
at the
mission
and had
learned
the
important
trades
,
which
included
blacksmithing
,
farming
,
ranching
,
carpentry
,
weaving
,
leathermaking
brick
making
,
soap
making
and
wine
making
. There are
over
2,000
people
buried
in the
cemetery
at the
mission
,
most
of them
Indians
.
Description
Photograph
shows
the
side
entrance
to the
San
Fernando
Mission
chapel
and
adjacent
Indian
cemetery
. The
unusual
white
marble
tombstone
on the
left
is
that of
Maria
Espi´ritu
Chirjulla
Leonis
(1836-1906)
.
Maria
Espi´ritu
was a
Chumash
Indian
princess
,
daughter
of the
former
mission
Indian
Chief
Oden
, and was
married
to
Miguel
Leonis
.
Mission
San
Fernando
Rey
de
Espan~a
is
located
at
15151
San
Fernando
Mission
Boulevard
.
Subject
San Fernando, Rey de Espan~a (Mission : San Fernando, Calif.).
Sepulchral monuments--California--Los Angeles.
Missions, Spanish--California--Los Angeles.
Chumash Indians--California--Los Angeles.
Cemeteries--California--Mission Hills (Los Angeles).
Crosses--California--Los Angeles.
Mission Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Format
Photographic prints
Reproduction Information
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http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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