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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

San Diego State Normal School, San Diego

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San Diego State Normal School, San Diego
PC-000-977
Picture postcard of building constructed for San Diego State Normal School
1900s
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E. M. Burbeck, San Diego, California, US
This hand-tinted picture postcard shows the original building and expansion constructed for the San Diego Normal School from 1898-1910 (original portion centered here dedicated 1899). 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. The publisher's number on the undivided back of this untraveled postcard is 2946.
San Diego Normal School; State Normal School; Normal schools; San Diego; Irving Gill; Beaux Arts style
4100 Normal Street
California - San Diego - University Heights
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Adolph Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis/Leipzig/Halberstadt
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
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Raymond Starr's San Diego State University: a History in Word and Image, San Diego State University Press, 1995, pp. 21 and 31; PC-000-981
[printed centered in red ink just below photograph]
State Normal School, San Diego, Cal.

[printed flush left at bottom of border]
E. M. Burbeck, San Diego, Cal.
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