VIEW OF THE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, c
VIEW OF THE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, c. 1815-18, lithograph after watercolor painting by Louis Chorus. The Spanish established the fortified position in 1776, when New Spain extended her colonization into Alta California and the San Francisco Bay region. By 1815, Spanish Franciscan missionaries established 21 coastal missions and endeavored to Christianize indigenous Californians. At the bottom a group of Indians are marched to work by an overseer
Picture No
13125685
Media ID
45375620
Size
2400px x 1511px
(733KB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
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