San Luis Obispo County Regional Photograph Collection

View of San Luis Obispo Mission, looking from the western end of the Mission towards Chorro Street.

View of San Luis Obispo Mission, looking western end of the Mission towards Chorro Street, with people and a donkey pictured outside the mission.

View of San Luis Obispo Mission, looking from the western end of the Mission towards Chorro Street.

View of San Luis Obispo Mission, looking from the eastern end of the Mission towards Broad Street. Back of postcard reads: 'Established by Fra. Junipero Serra on September 1st, 1772. This is one of California's oldest missions.'

A group of people standing in front of the mission in San Luis Obispo. The mission and its grounds reflect a time before extensive renovations were done to it in the 20th century.

Illustration of the mission, with writing on the back that reads: 'Mission San Luis Obispo 'De Tolosa', San Luis Obispo County, California. Fifth Mission in California, founded September 1, 1772, by the Franciscan Fathers.'

Back of postcard reads: 'Shrine of Our Mother of Grace in the garden of Mission San Buenaventura, founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1782.'

The altar at the Immaculate Conception Church located in Wellsville, N.Y.