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Antique woodblock print San Fernando mission Southern California Artist Betty Lark-Horovitz made in 1930. Horovitz was active in California in the 1930s. Her work includes scenes of Yosemite and San Francisco. In: Library of Congress. Mrs. Betty Lark-Horovitz was an artist of international renown.  She was commissioned to do etchings of several buildings at Purdue University in 1930.  These buildings were the Ladies Hall, The Old Dormitory, The Pharmacy Building, University Hall, and the Mechanical Engineering Building.  The etchings, one of which was in color, were issued in Limited Form.  There were only 100 sets, each numbered and signed by the artist. Mr. W. H. Winterrowd, M. E., '07 conceived of the idea of having the etchings done, and he underwrote the cost and presented the entire 100 sets to Purdue University.  The sets were to be sold and the entire income from their sale was to go to the University. They were sold at $100 per set. Mrs. Betty Lark-Horovitz was the wife of Dr. Lark-Horovitz who was in charge of the Department of Physics at Purdue.  She lived to be 100. Searching for Creator: Lark-Horovitz, Betty (1894-1994)

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Mission San Fernando Rey de España

Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" (September 8), 1797. The settlement is located on the former Encino Rancho in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, near the site of the first gold discovery in Alta California.

Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on September 8, 1797 by Father Fermín Lasuén, making it the fourth mission site he had established in as many months. The prime location the padre selected, located along the principal highway leading to the Pueblo de Los Angeles, had been occupied by Francisco Reyes (then Los Angeles' mayor). However, after brief negotiations construction of the first buildings was soon underway (Mission records list Reyes as godfather to the first infant baptized at San Fernando).[9]

In 1845, Governor Pío Pico declared the Mission buildings for sale and, in 1846, made Mission San Fernando Rey de España his headquarters as Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. The Mission was utilized in a number of ways during the late 1800s: it was a station for the Butterfield Stage Lines; it served as a warehouse for the Porter Land and Water Company; and in 1896, the quadrangle was used as a hog farm. San Fernando's church became a working church again in 1923 when the Oblate priests arrived. Many attempts were made to restore the old Mission from the early 1900s, but it was not until the Hearst Foundation gave a large gift of money in the 1940s, that the Mission was finally restored. In 1971, a large earthquake damaged the church, which had to be completely rebuilt. The repairs were completed in 1974. It continues to be very well cared for and is still used as a chapel-of-ease. In 2003 comedian Bob Hope was interred in the Bob Hope Memorial Gardens.