Stereo card San Xavier Mission Charles Fariot photo c.1890
by David Lee Guss
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Stereo card San Xavier Mission Charles Fariot photo c.1890
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David Lee Guss
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"Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham San Xavier Indian Reservation. Named in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order), the Mission is also known as the "place where the water appears," as there were once natural springs in the area. The Santa Cruz River which now runs only part of the year is also nearby.
The Mission is situated in the center of a centuries-old Indian settlement of the Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago), located along the banks of the Santa Cruz River. c.1890
"San Xavier was not completed until 1797, in the waning years of the Spanish empire and a scant quarter century before Mexico declared its independence."
Charles Fariot took this stereoview in c. 1880. He sold his "Arizona Views" in San Francisco from his brother-in law's studio.
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