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Sonoran Missions Expedition

Grant was the official photographer for this 1935 NPS survey trip to catalog information about Kino Missions in southern Arizona and northern Mexico.
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Mission San Xavier del Bac. This image was included in Sonora Missions Expedition materials but likely dates to early 1950s.
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Mission San Xavier del Bac. This image was included in Sonora Missions Expedition materials but likely dates to early 1950s.

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  • Mission San Xavier del Bac. Regarded as one of the most beautiful mission churcnes in the United States. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
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  • Altar in Mission San Xavier del Bac. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Side view of Mission San Xavier del Bac. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Detail of rooftop, Mission San Xavier del Bac. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Old Spanish iron stirrup in the historical collection of the University of Arizona, Tucson. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Fishing in the Gulf of California. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Beach on the Gulf of California. Sonora Mexico Expedition, 1935.
  • The front, or facades, pf Cocospera Mission. The building faces west. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • The Gulf of California. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Expedition members on rocks overlooking Gulf of California. Sonora Mission Expedition, 1935.
  • Members of the NPS Sonora Mission Expedition with George Grant's panel truck. Site is near foundation ruins of Mission Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • Members of the NPS expedition team. Left to right: Robert Rose, George Grant, Leffler Miller, J. Howard Tovrea, Arthur Woodward, and Scofield DeLong. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • Mission San Xavier del Bac. This image was included in Sonora Missions Expedition materials but likely dates to early 1950s.
  • The Kino Expedition at work at Mission Nuestra Senora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocospera. View is from the altar toward the front of the church. Left to right: Robert Rose, Arthur Woodward, Scofield DeLong, Leffler Miller, and J. Howard Tovrea. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • The upper valley of the Cocospera River from the mission site. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • State government palace, Hermosillo, Mexico. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • Catedral Metroplitana de Hermosillo, Mexico. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • Ruins of a mission church outside Hermosillo, Mexico. Sonora Missions Expedition, 1935.
  • Façade of Mission San Antonio de Oquitoa. Sonora Missions Expedtion, 1935.
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