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- Collection: Mission Santa Clara Fall 2022
During the excavation, almost completely intact skeletons of the Ohlone people were found along with the different items including beads and…
During the excavation, almost completely intact skeletons of the Ohlone people were found along with the different items including beads and…
Illustration II : Isle of Cuba [Cortez Expedition].
The Santa Clara Mission in 1872, documented by Edward Vischer
In this letter to the governor of Alta California, Fr. Francisco García Diego expressed his opinion regarding secularization. The Franciscan from…
Mission Santa Clara was the eighth one built in California. It was founded on January 12, 1777, by Father Thomas de la Pena.
In California’s past thousands of Native People in hundreds of different groups lived here — and their descendants still live here. The landscapes…
Portrait heads of Indians of California by Louis Choris
Dance headdresses of the native peoples of California by Louis Choris (1822)
Two Ohlone men hunting. Painted by Louis Choris.