Mission San José/Gallery
![(PD) Painting: Georg von Langsdorff / José Cardero Georg von Langsdorff, an early visitor to California, sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José in 1806.[1][2]](/wiki/images/thumb/8/8e/Mission_San_Jose_natives.jpg/238px-Mission_San_Jose_natives.jpg)
(PD) Painting: Georg von Langsdorff / José Cardero
Georg von Langsdorff, an early visitor to California, sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José in 1806.[1][2]
(PD) Drawing: A. Greger
The complex at Mission San José, circa 1830.
© Painting: Chesley Bonestell
Mission San José in its prime.
(PD) Painting: Jean Baptiste Debret
Indians dancing at the San José Mission in 1839, from Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Bresil.
(PD) Drawing: Eugene Duflot de Mofras
This likeness of Fray Narciso Durán suggests a paternalistic relationship between the missionaries and their native charges. As appears in Exploring du territoire de l’Oregon (1844).
The large chapel to the right, seen here in 1853, was subsequently destroyed in the 1868 Hayward earthquake.
(PD) Painting: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey / California Historical Society
This undated painting depicts the devastation wrought on the Mission's unreinforced masonry structures by the 1868 Hayward earthquake.
(PD) Photo: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey / California Historical Society
In 1890 a Norman-style structure (seen here before the spire was added) was constructed in place of the original chapel. The new building served as the parish church until 1965.
(PD) Drawing: Stephen Powers
Patwin earth lodges near Mission San José, 1877.
(PD) Painting: Henry Chapman Ford
Mission San José, circa 1880-1881.
(PD) Photo: Keystone-Mast.Company
Mission San José, circa 1900.
(PD) Photo: U.S. Historic American Buildings Survey / San Francisco Chronicle Library
In the early part of the 1900's a sign was erected on the roof of the museum which incorrectly identified the facility as Mission San José de Guadalupe.
(PD) Photo: W.A.Haines
The monastery at Mission San José, circa 1910.
(PD) Painting: Will Sparks
Mission San José, between 1933 and 1937.
(CC) Photo: Larry Myhre
The reconstructed chapel at Mission San José (now sporting a bell tower) as it appeared in 2011.
(CC) Photo: Larry Myhre
The interior of the chapel at Mission San José.
(PD) Photo: United States Navy
USNS Mission San Jose (T-AO-125) underway in Long Beach Harbor area, date unknown.
(PD) Painting: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Saint Joseph and the Christ child.
![(PD) Painting: Georg von Langsdorff / José Cardero Georg von Langsdorff, an early visitor to California, sketched a group of Costeño dancers at Mission San José in 1806.[1][2]](/wiki/File:Mission_San_Jose_natives.jpg)
Notes and references
- ↑ von Langsdorff, p. 5: "The hair of these people is very coarse, thick, and stands erect; in some it is powdered with down feathers." Langsdorff noted, "Their bodies are fantastically painted with charcoal dust, red clay, and chalk. The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments."
- ↑ Paddison, p. 130