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Image:California Indians catching salmon.jpg|{{California Indians catching salmon.jpg/credit}}<br />California Indians catching salmon.
Image:Franciscan coat-of-arms.jpg|{{Franciscan coat-of-arms.jpg/credit}}<br />The Franciscan coat of arms, a prominent feature of the décor of the early California missions.
Image:Discovery of Old San Francisco Bay.jpg|{{Discovery of Old San Francisco Bay.jpg/credit}}<br />Gaspar de Portolà sights [[San Francisco Bay]], November 4, 1769.
Image:Serra in San Diego May 19 1770.jpg|{{Serra in San Diego May 19 1770.jpg/credit}}<br/>''The Ship! The Ship! California is saved!'' Father Serra rejoices at the sight of the packet ship ''San Antonio'' entering San Diego Bay on March 19, 1770 with desperately-needed food and supplies. The ''San Carlos'' rests at anchor just offshore.<ref>Engelhardt 1920, pp. 35-37</ref>
Image:Costanoans fighting Spanish soldier 1791.jpg|{{Costanoans fighting Spanish soldier 1791.jpg/credit}}<br />Costanoans fight a Spanish soldier in 1791.
Image:A native of the Monterey area.jpg|{{A native of the Monterey area.jpg/credit}}<br />A native of the Monterey area. The Costanoan people spoke eight languages, each of which is considered to designate a different tribelet. 
Image:Cahuilla Indians c. 1856.jpg|{{Cahuilla Indians c. 1856.jpg/credit}}<br />Cahuilla Indians, ''circa'' 1856. The Cahuilla were called ''támikawicam'' which means "people from the east" by the Gabrieliño. 
Image:Diegueno Indians traveling.jpg|{{Diegueno Indians traveling.jpg/credit}}<br />Diegueño Indians traveling. The San Diego area Indians resisted the Spanish and were slow to accept Christianity.
Image:Indian woman gathering acorns.jpg|{{Indian woman gathering acorns.jpg/credit}}<br />An Indian woman gathering acorns.
Image:Indians pounding acorns.jpg|{{Indians pounding acorns.jpg/credit}}<br />Indians pounding acorns.
Image:Miwok making chemuck.jpg|{{Miwok making chemuck.jpg/credit}}<br />Miwok making chemuck, a kind of stew.
Image:Mwok Indian Granaries.jpg|{{Mwok Indian Granaries.jpg/credit}}<br />Acorn granaries in a Miwok village.
Image:Inhabitants of California.jpg|{{Inhabitants of California.jpg/credit}}<br />"Inhabitants of California" by Louis Choris.
Image:Indians Dancing.jpg|{{Indians Dancing.jpg/credit}}<br />Natives dancing at Mission Dolores, 1816.
Image:Tule boat.jpg|{{Tule boat.jpg/credit}}<br />The Ohlone, Coast Miwok, and Bay Miwok all utilized utilized tule in the construction of boats for use in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Northern groups of Chumash also used tule to build reed fishing canoes.<ref>Jones and Klar, 307</ref> 
Image:Mission Delores 1816 Stick Game.jpg|{{Mission Delores 1816 Stick Game.jpg/credit}}<br />Indians play a stick game at Mission Dolores.
Image:The Zacatecan Franciscans Land at Monterey - January 15, 1833 - AH.jpg|{{The Zacatecan Franciscans Land at Monterey - January 15, 1833 - AH.jpg/credit}}<br />Governor José Figueroa and the Zacatecan Franciscans land at Monterey, January 15, 1833.
Image:CHS-46640.jpg|{{CHS-46640.jpg/credit}}<br/>The [[San Antonio de Pala Asistencia]] (or "Pala Mission" as it is known today) ''circa'' 1900. Pala is architecturally unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. It is also the only outpost that has ministered without interruption to the Mission Indians for whom it was originally built since its inception, and is the only "sub-mission" still intact.<ref name="carillo11">Carillo, p. 11</ref>
Image:CHS-2097.jpg|{{CHS-2097.jpg/credit}}<br/>[[Mission San Luis Rey de Francia]] is home to with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (''Schinus molle'') planted in California in 1830, visible at right behind the arches in the above photograph (taken ''circa'' 1900).<ref>Young, p. 18</ref>
Image:CHS-1909.jpg|{{CHS-1909.jpg/credit}}<br />An engraved portrait of Fr. Junípero Serra, O.F.M. The well-known and beloved missionary died in Monterey, California, on August 28, 1784.
Image:Architectural-Drawing--Floor-Plan-Church.jpg|{{Architectural-Drawing--Floor-Plan-Church.jpg/credit}}<br />A floor plan of the chapel at Mission San San Buenaventura as prepared by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937. 
Image:Cemetery Entrance.jpg|{{Cemetery Entrance.jpg/credit}}<br />Stone "skull and crossbone" carvings denote the cemetery entrance at Mission Santa Barbara. Actual skulls and bones were long used to mark the entrances to Spanish cemeteries (''campo santos''). The practice, dating back many centuries, led to the symbol eventually becoming associated with the concept of death.
Image:Mission San Buenaventura olive press.jpg|{{Mission San Buenaventura olive press.jpg/credit}}<br />A replica of an olive press at Mission San Buenaventura.
Image:USNS Mission Capistrano.jpg|{{USNS Mission Capistrano.jpg/credit}}Between 1944 and 1945, twenty-seven [[USNS Mission Buenaventura (T-AO-111)|''Mission Buenaventura'']]-class fleet oilers were built (two additional vessels were converted to distilling ships after their keels had been laid).<ref>Fleet Oiler (AO) Photo Index</ref> Many of the ships, such as the [[USNS Mission Capistrano (T-AO-112)|USNS ''Mission Capistrano'' (T-AO-112)]] shown above, served with the United States Navy during [[World War II]] and on into the [[Cold War]].
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