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- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
Palm trees planted 1769, San Diego, California
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PC-000-656
Picture postcard of two palm trees, distributed by Ramona's Marriage Place, San Diego
Ramona's Marriage Place, San Diego, California
The publisher of this hand-tinted picture postcard, Paul C. Koeber Co., was in business from 1900-1923. This card is numbered (right bottom corner) 6761. It depicts only two fenced-in palm trees, one of which is braced. On the back is a logo "From Ramona's Marriage Place," the Casa de Estudillo in San Diego, where a fictional wedding was said to have taken place in the 1884 novel "Ramona" by Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885). In 1887, an article in the San Diego Union declared the place to be the wedding site, and the caretaker sold pieces of it as souvenirs. In 1906, John D. Spreckels, who owned the streetcar lines, bought the property and funded a restoration of what became a tourist attraction along his streetcar line. The real spot, however, according to the San Diego Save Our Heritage Foundaton, was the Adobe Chapel in Old Town. The site of these palm trees does not appear to be at the "Marriage Place" itself.
Palm trees; San Diego; Old Town; C. Koeber Company; Picture postcards; Postcards
California - San Diego
- John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Paul. C. Koeber Co., New York, New York
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
Yes
PC-000-656A
Palms at Old San Diego, Planted 1769.
- San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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TIFF
20.99 MB
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