San Francisco or Mission Dolores
Chicago: Franciscn Herald Press, 1924.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The Missions and Missionaries of California, New Series, Local History. xv, 432 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, index, in original gilt-decorated brown cloth boards. Tiny split in paper over front hinge, else a fine copy. The Mission Dolores complex, located in what is now San Francisco's Mission District, was founded on October 9, 1776, by Frs Francisco Palóu and Pedro Benito Cambón. The Franciscan Order sent the two priests to the Spanish Province of Alta California to bring in Spanish settlers and evangelize the indigenous Ohlone people (Wiki).
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