Print, Photographic

Tombstone/Don Luis Arguello

Tombstone/Don Luis Arguello

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1991.004.0506

Description

B/W Photograph: Tombstone of Don Luis Antonio Arguello. Grave in cemetery at Mission Dolores in San Francisco. Don Luis was a brother of Concepcion Arguello, who fell in love with Nicolai Rezanov, the dashing Russian who sailed to California in 1806 and was welcomed by Don Luis in the absence of his father Commandante Arguello. Concepcion, later a Dominican nun, died in Benicia in 1857.

Collection

Special Collections