“San Xavier”

While examining the slides in my “Buildings + Architecture” category, I realized that these two photos were taken of the same place, but by different people — and 12 years apart.

San Xavier del Bac is a 18th-century Catholic mission just outside Tuscon, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham reservation. Its nickname is “The White Dove of the Desert" and it’s not hard to see why it’s a popular place to photograph.

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— San Xavier del Bac thru arch; November 1979
— San Xavier del Bac; November 1991