This album features text and photographs regarding the Missions of Lower California.

1 through 38- (Text) "Brief Historical Review of the Peninsula and the Foundation of the Jesuit Missions". 39 through 43- (Text) "The Number and Location of all the Missions. The Number of Neophytes. The Number of Superiors Whom Each Missionary Had Over Him. Visits Rare Among the Missionaries" Chapter Sixteen from "The History of (Lower) California" by Don Francisco Javier Clavigero, S.J. Stanford University Press. 1937. 44- Map of Baja California. 45- "Map of Lower California and the adjacent mainland". 46- "Mission Santa Rosalia de Mulege, Founded 1705". 47- "Mission San Ignacio, Founded 1728". 48- (Text) Missions - Lower California. 49- "Mission of San Luis, near La Paz." 50- "Another view of the Ruins of the Mission of El Rosario. The bells are the same which were brought over by the missionaries in the XVII century." 51- "An old ranch near Santo Domingo". 52- "The oldest baptismal font in America, (1532) still extant in the Temple of San Francisco, Tlaxcala, Mexico." 53- "Ruins of the Mission of Santo Domingo, Northern District of L.C." 54- Principal altar of the church of the mission of San Ignacio, constructed in 1725." 55- "The oldest pulpit in America, (1532) still extant in the Temple of San Francisco, Tlaxcala, Mexico." 56- "An old well from which the water was frawn with a "Malacate," an apparatus operated by a mule. This is located on the Rancho Refugio, near La Paz, established by the missionaries." 57- "Canal built by the missionaries in La Purisma". 58- "Another view of the same Mission, showing the old tombs in which the Spanish founders buried their dead." 59- "Ruins of the old Mission of Loreto". 60- "Temple of the Mission of San Ignacio, constructed in 1725, one of the most artistic church edifices of the time." 61- "Church of San Javier, built by the Jesuits in 1769. Municipality of Comondu, L.C., 24 miles from the Gulf of Cortes." 62- Fold-out map of Baja California (four-pieces of heavy cardstock glued to cloth)

For additional information see California Revealed.

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