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[*] posted on 6-7-2019 at 04:51 PM
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San Francisco de Borja


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[*] posted on 6-7-2019 at 04:55 PM
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[*] posted on 6-7-2019 at 06:50 PM


Love the old pictures, keepum coming...
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[*] posted on 6-8-2019 at 07:48 PM


K, David K....post some modern ones.

I AM SERIOUS!!!

I love seeing 'before' and 'after' pictures.

A coffee book of before and after pictures from the same spot and recreating the same composition and framing would be a book I would buy.

Some changes is so slow in the desert it is cool to try to see the differences such as the rock wall pictures from ESG trip to Las Animas is a perfect example.
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[*] posted on 6-9-2019 at 01:48 PM


Quote: Originally posted by Fatboy  
K, David K....post some modern ones.

I AM SERIOUS!!!

I love seeing 'before' and 'after' pictures.

A coffee book of before and after pictures from the same spot and recreating the same composition and framing would be a book I would buy.

Some changes is so slow in the desert it is cool to try to see the differences such as the rock wall pictures from ESG trip to Las Animas is a perfect example.


OK, Robert posted photos of San Borja (adobe ruin and stone church), San Fernando, and Santo Domingo. Here are my most recent of each (2017):


San Borja adobe (Franciscan and Jesuit period, 1759-1773)


The stone church from the Dominican period (1773-1818).


San Fernando mission.


Santo Domingo mission.




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[*] posted on 6-9-2019 at 02:49 PM


Every raining day takes it's toll on the adobe/mud walls.

So sad to see that only Borja has any protection.
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[*] posted on 6-10-2019 at 08:06 AM


INAH or ? has covered the adobe walls of some of the missions with some protective coating. Not at San Fernando or Santo Tomás, sadly. As you can see above, Santo Domingo's coating is wearing off.

In the 1970s, Santo Tomás (the third/final site) had a recognizable building outline... Today, it is just a stub of a wall.

SANTO TOMAS, final mission site (1799-1849):

1926 (George Hendry photo):


1949 (Marquis McDonald photo):


1956 (Howard Gulick photo):


1975 (Robert Jackson/academicanarchist photo):


2003 (Jack Swords photo):


2005 (David Kier photo):


2017 (David Kier photo):




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