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Catalog Number 4563: (Missions) (1) Description: "Mission San Jose, Tucson, Arizona, APH Soc. Taken about 1890. Now a complete ruin." (Number AS-29 D). Date: ca 1890; 1891 ?; 1882 or 91. (2) "San Xavier del Bac Mission, Tucson, Arizona." Photographer: George Grant, U. S. National Park Service 1935. (3) "Mission Tumacacori- 34 miles south of Tucson, Arizona- about 30 miles north of Mexcan border." Exterior view. Colonel Leppewatt ? ca. 1955 or 56. (4) "Old Jesuit Mission at Batuc, Sonora." Lee Fuller April 1958. (5) "Caborca (Mission), Sonora, Mexico." Exterior view. (Number AS-11 A-4). G. B. Eckhart 1955. (6) "Side view, Pitiquiti Church, Sonora, Mexico." (Number AS-44 F). Probably by G. B. Eckhart 1955 ? (7) "Mission church at Pitiquito, Sonora, Mexico, near Caborca, Sonora. Built by Franciscans during last half of 1800's - Original church was built by Jesuits here- possibly Padre Kino." Exterior view. G. B. Eckhart. (8) "Door-way to Baptistry at Tubutama, Sonora, church." U. S. National Park Service, Globe, Arizona ca. 1936. (9) "Old Mission church at Tubutama, Sonora, Mexico. Father Garces, the first Franciscan father at San Xavier del Bac was buried here after he was martyred at Yuma. He wrote his diary here, as did Father Font, who accompanied de Anza on his trip to California with the group who founded San Francisco. Built probably in the 1770's.