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Host Elsa with Iris Engstrand, Ph.D., history professor at University of San Diego.

Baja California Special

SAN DIEGO’S HISTORIC PLACES focuses on the first Jesuit priests to arrive in the Baja California Peninsula and how they established 17 missions in the 17th century.

Host Elsa with Iris Engstrand, Ph.D., history professor at University of San Diego.
Host Elsa with Iris Engstrand, Ph.D., history professor at University of San Diego.  (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
Host Elsa (right) with Carlos Garcia Cortez, artifacts manager at the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico.
Host Elsa (right) with Carlos Garcia Cortez, artifacts manager at the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico.   (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
An exhibit featuring a small-scale Manila Galleon at the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico.
An exhibit featuring a small-scale Manila Galleon at the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum (CECUT), Tijuana, Mexico.  (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
Kumeyaay village
Kumeyaay village  (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
California Days at Old Town (undated photo)
California Days at Old Town (undated photo)  (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
Opening day of Serra Museum at the Presidio in 1929.
Opening day of Serra Museum at the Presidio in 1929.  (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
Opening day of Serra Museum at the Presidio in 1929.
Opening day of Serra Museum at the Presidio in 1929.  (Courtesy of Sevilla Productions)
Misión de San Javier de Biaundó, located in a mountain area called Viggé. Founded in 1699, the second mission was created as the Society of Jesus finally established a permanent Spanish presence in Calif. The founder, Padre Francisco María Piccolo, led the exploration that discovered the original site on which San Javier was founded, but within a few years a lack of water and arable land forced a move to the site (pictured) some five miles downstream from the original.
Misión de San Javier de Biaundó, located in a mountain area called Viggé. Founded in 1699, the second mission was created as the Society of Jesus finally established a permanent Spanish presence in Calif. The founder, Padre Francisco María Piccolo, led the exploration that discovered the original site on which San Javier was founded, but within a few years a lack of water and arable land forced a move to the site (pictured) some five miles downstream from the original.  (Courtesy of UCSD Library Special Collections, Harry Crosby)
Prehistoric hunting blinds, Baja California 1973; Harry Crosby Photographs.
Prehistoric hunting blinds, Baja California 1973; Harry Crosby Photographs.   (Courtesy of UCSD Library Special Collections, Harry Crosby)
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