PC-000-412

Great egrets are represented in an exhibit at the Natural History Museum in San Diego's Balboa Park, California

 

 

 

Kodak photo paper

Two great egrets are represented in what this black-and-white picture postcard states is the Natural History Museum of San Diego, California. One taxidermically preserved bird perches on a wooden structure, with its wings outstretched, and the other is standing on the floor of the exhibit. The San Diego Natural History Museum opened in the structure built for it in Balboa Park in 1933, having been previously housed since 1922 in the 1915 Panama-California Exposition's Commerce and Industries Building later rebuilt as the Casa de Balboa. This is a Real Photo Post Card (RPPC) made with Kodak photo paper (as evidenced in the stampbox on the back of this card). The Real Photo process allowed photographers to take a "snap shot" and have it finished at a photo shop that printed it out on postcard backing for mailing. Kodak papers were made starting in 1950.

Great egrets; Natural History Museum of San Diego; Natural history museums; Museums; Birds; San Diego; Balboa Park; RPPC; Real Photo Post Cards; Kodak photo papers

2920 Zoo Drive

California - San Diego - Balboa Park

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

 

[hand printed in white superimposed on photograph at bottom left]
5-
American Egret
Natural History Museum
San Diego, Calif.

 

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TIFF

12.59 MB