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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
San Diego and Panama-California Exposition, 1915
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PC-000-622
Picture postcard showing aerial view of San Diego and Balboa Park with the buildings of the Panama-California Exposition
1915
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W. E. Averett
Azo photo paper
This black-and-white picture postcard by W. E. Averett is a real photo postcard (RPPC). This process allowed both amateur and professional photographers to take a "snap shot" to a photo finishing shop and have it printed on a postcard backing. These photo papers were usually identified in the stampbox of the postcard. In this case the paper is commonly dated between 1917-1930 by Azo. It appears to be an aerial view of San Diego laid out from Laurel Street on the west (about the vertical middle), crossing the Cabrillo Bridge as El Prado, with the Administration Building, California Building and Tower along El Prado, and the rest of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition buildings spreading mostly east but also a little north and south. To the south of the Exposition are the Marine parade grounds, with the tents visible. Threading through the Cabrillo Bridge is Camino Cabrillo, that became State Route 163. On the south is San Diego's "New Town."
Balboa Park; San Diego; Cabrillo Bridge; State Route 163; Cabrillo Highway; Panama-California Exposition of 1915; W. E. Averett; RPPC; Real Photo Post Card
California - San Diego
W. E. Averett
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
No
[printed in white at bottom left, superimposed on photograph]
[copyright symbol] 1915
W. E. Averett
[printed in white at bottom right, superimposed on photograph]
35-4
[copyright symbol] 1915
W. E. Averett
[printed in white at bottom right, superimposed on photograph]
35-4
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Image
TIFF
19.11 MB
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