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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Samarkand, Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California
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PC-002-471
Samarkand, Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California
Photographic paper: Kodak Velvet Green Paper
Not much can be picked out in this Real Photo Post Card except for the mountains in the distance. The Samarkand was a hotel from 1920 to 1940. According to a promotional sheet from the hotel, the name means "heart's desire." It had been Prynce Hopkins's "Boyland II," a private boys' school, starting in 1915. After he moved to Europe in 1918, his mother Mary Hopkins turned the property into a hotel, then sold it by 1937 to Alma Spreckles, after which it changed hands frequently, pausing only to be occupied by the Marines during World War II. The site was partially turned into a housing development, but 16 acres became a 21st-century retirement community with the same name. The surface of the print is a "semi-gloss," but no hint of the advertised color of the Kodak Velvet Green photographic paper can be seen. The photographic paper was in use from about 1908 through at least 1928.
Santa Barbara; The Samarkand Hotel; The Samarkand retirement community; Hotels; Private schools; Boys' schools; Retirement Communities; RPPC; Real Photo Post Cards; Kodak Velvet Green photographic papers
2550 Treasure Drive
California - Santa Barbara
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
Postcard
3.5 inches X 5.5 inches
No
- San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
Image
TIFF
20.46 MB
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