Soledad Mission

These two images show the Soledad Mission (also known as Nuestra Senora de la Soledad). The left-hand photograph (photographer unknown) was taken after the church's restoration in 1954. The right-hand photograph (by H.C. Tibbitts in approximately 1913) shows ruins on the mission grounds.

Identification Information:

Left-hand Photograph: Photographer and date unknown, inserted into pages of "The Old Spanish Missions of California: An Historical and Descriptive Sketch by Paul Elder -- Illustrated Chiefly from Photographs by Western Artists (New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1913), Roger Larson Collection, 97-01-17(525).

Right-hand Photograph: Photograph by H.C. Tibbitts, circa 1913. Within "The Old Spanish Missions of California: An Historical and Descriptive Sketch by Paul Elder -- Illustrated Chiefly from Photographs by Western Artists (New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1913), Roger Larson Collection, 97-01-17(525).