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Order Number	00045863
Title	Fiesta at San Gabriel Mission
Photographer	Walker, Bill.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE Box 1951
Date	1962
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w
Historical Data	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, also known as the San Gabriel Mission, is a former Roman Catholic mission and current historic landmark; it was the fourth of 21 California missions to be founded. The founding date was September 8, 1771, and Padres Pedro Benito Cambon and Angel Fernandes de la Somera were the founding priests. The mission was built from 1791 to 1805 out of cut stone, brick, and mortar, and is the oldest structure of its kind south of Monterey, Ca. It was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado, and is often referred to as the "Godmother of the Pueblo of Los Angeles". Father Cruzado gave the building its strong Moorish architectural influence, with capped buttresses and tall, narrow windows, which are unique among the missions of the California chain. In the early mission era, it came to be known as the "Pride of the Missions" and became the wealthiest of all the early missions due to its large production of crops and trading of cattle hides and wine. On October 1, 1987 the Whittier Narrows Earthquake heavily damaged the mission, but it was fully restored between 1987 and 1993. Today, San Gabriel possesses perhaps the finest collection of mission relics in existence. It has a hammered copper baptismal font that was the gift of King Carlos III of Spain in 1771, and six priceless altar statues that were brought around the Horn from Spain in 1791. Mission San Gabriel Arcangel was added in 1971 as a National Historic Landmark, building #71000158. It is also a California Historical Landmark, No. 158. Two addresses are given for the mission: 428 South Mission Drive, and 537 West Mission Drive at Junipero Street.
Description	Father Bernard O'Connor, CMF, rings bells at San Gabriel Mission on August 31, 1962, to open a fiesta, with the help of Queen Paulette Marshall and her court. Back, left to right: Mary Ellen Woerner, Jo Ann Bonfiglio, Margaret Woods, Clotilda Oseguera.
Subject	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.). Missions, Spanish--California--San Gabriel. Festivals--California--San Gabriel. National Historic Landmarks. California Historical Landmarks. San Gabriel (Calif.). Group portraits Portrait photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Coverage	1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection