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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, one of four Spanish missions in San Antonio, Texas

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Known as the "Queen of the Missions", this is the largest of the missions and was almost fully restored to its original design in the 1930s by the WPA (Works Projects Administration). Spanish missions were not churches, but communities, with the church the focus.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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01/01/2014
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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San Antonio (Tex.)29.42417, -98.49361
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