San Luis Rey Mission Graveyard

ClassificationsPhotographs

Printer F.H. Maude & Co.

Date1895

Place DepictedOceanside, California, United States, North America

MediumPhotographic print

DimensionsOverall: 6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Harrie H. Teaboldt

Object number19502

DescriptionThis 1895 photograph depicts San Louis Rey’s Mission Graveyard. The earliest source of western cemeteries in California came following 1769 with the creation of our state’s missions. Every mission had at least a small graveyard where friars and others associated with the mission would be buried. The Bowers Museum has a large collection of photographs of the missions, and as a result, their graveyards. many of the individual plots are fenced which was a way to keep both people and livestock from disturbing one’s eternal rest and to ensure it remained easy to find should nature take the marker itself.

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