PC-002-657A

Hospital at Highlands, San Bernardino, California

Patton State Hospital, Patton, California

circa 1900

 

 

This collotype photographic postcard shows castle-like buildings with towers set against a background of mountains in warm black and white. This was the Southern California State Asylum for the Insane and Inebriates, also known as Patton State Hospital, opened in 1893, a psychiatric hospital in the Kirkride tradition. The unincorporated community named Patton eventually became part of San Bernardino. Since the back is undivided--to be used for the address and postal markings only--the message must be written on the picture side, and this is where the sender has handwritten a few sentences in cursive with uneven black ink. The publisher's number 7216 is in the lower left corner of the image and its name in the lower left corner of the margin.

Patton; Patton State Hospital; Southern California State Asylum for the Insane and Inebriates; Psychiatric hospitals; Asylums; Insane Asylums; Kirkride hospitals; Hospitals; San Bernardino

3102 East Highland Avenue

California - San Bernardino - Patton

 

 

MS-0008

English

M. Rieder, Publisher, Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

Yes

PC-002-657B

Your postal received. Glad to know your mother arrived safely. Thanks for invitation to tea. Wish I could accept. I know you and your mother are having a fine time. Write when you can. With love
LEC

 

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