PC-000-667

Picture postcard looking up Broadway from Horton Plaza, with US Grant hotel in foreground, San Diego

 

1931

 

Curt Teich

The US Grant hotel (formerly U. S. Grant Hotel, opened 1910) faces Horton Plaza, given to the City of San Diego in 1895 by Alonzo Horton (1813-1909) and created for guests of the Horton House Hotel, which earlier occupied the site of the US Grant hotel. In this hand-tinted color postcard, The US Grant hotel is the whitish building on the right with two towers and the flag on the tower near the middle of the photograph. The Plaza is marked by palm trees and a fountain in the center of the plaza (bottom right) designed by Irving Gill (1870-1936) and installed in 1909. This is a linen postcard, a type of card made from around 1930 to the early 1950s, and the publishing company was open for business from 1932 to the 1970s.

The US Grant hotel; U. S. Grant Hotel; San Diego; Horton Plaza; Curt Teich; Broadway

 

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

Western Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

 

[printed at top in white border]
4505 Looking up Broadway fro Plazas, U. S. Grant Hotel in the Foreground, San Diego, California

[printed lower right in white border, Curt Teich number] 1A-H494

 

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TIFF

21.67 MB