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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Normal School from Mission Cliff Park, San Diego
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PC-000-985
Picture postcard of Mission Cliff Park, with building constructed for San Diego State Normal School
circa 1910
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Curt Teich
This hand-tinted picture postcard uses the same photograph as on PC-000-983A and PC-000-986A. At the far end of the road away from what is described as the Mission Cliff Park, centered in the deep background, is the San Diego Normal School, constructed from 1898-1910. This building, designed by Irving Gill (1870-1936), continued to be used as the school changed its name to the State Teachers' College, until the Montezuma Mesa location was occupied in 1931. Mission Cliff Park or Gardens, as it was known, was a creation of the San Diego Cable Railway Company, owned by John D. Spreckels (1853-1926). It was in existence from 1898 to 1942 and was the original destination of the pipe organ that became the center of the Spreckels Organ Pavillion. The Curt Teich number is the same as on PC-000-983B, A-13966. The Eno & Matteson number is 2951, and thereare a Benham Co. logo and a seal of the Panama-California Exposition (San Diego, 1915) on the back of the card.
San Diego Normal School; State Normal School; Normal schools; San Diego
California - San Diego - University Heights
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Eno & Matteson, San Diego, California, US
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
No
Raymond Starr's San Diego State University: a History in Word and Image, San Diego State University Press, 1995, pp. 21 and 31; PC-000-983, PC-000-986; Journal of San Diego History, Fall 1977, vol. 23, #4, B. Potter, "Mission Cliff Gardens"
[printed suuperimposed on photograph at top left]
Normal School from Mission Cliff Park, San Diego, Cal.
Normal School from Mission Cliff Park, San Diego, Cal.
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