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Missions -- California -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

California clippings collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 7001
Abstract



This collection of primarily California-related materials was the provenance of Mrs. Walter K. Towers, with some materials from Berenice Towers. Over the span of more than forty years, they saved clippings, magazines, small publications, maps, and other ephemera chiefly on California with an emphasis on Southern California.

Dates: 1945s-1980s; Majority of material found in 1950s-1960s

Edwin Deakin Missions of California prints

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275056490882]
Identifier: 7130
Abstract

23 prints of the California missions by Edwin Deakin. Deakin, an English-born artist, became well known for his paintings of the California Missions that drew public attention to their deteriorating state.

Dates: circa 1900

Midnight Mission and Tom and Mary Liddecoat papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0413
Abstract The papers of the Midnight Mission and of Tom and Mary Liddecoat consist of material that documents the personal and business history of the Liddecoat family, the Midnight Mission, and various other charities and individuals associated with the Liddecoat family; specifically, the collection documents two generations of the Liddecoat family and their involvement in charitable organizations such as the Midnight Mission, the Gospel Foundation of America, and charitable organizations on the...
Dates: 1899 - 2005