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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

Proposed Site of Panama-California Exposition

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Proposed Site of Panama-California Exposition
PC-000-602
Picture postcard showing Balboa Park in the background, San Diego High School middle ground, and San Diego foreground
circa 1910
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Curt Teich
This picture postcard has a seal of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 on the back. In the image portion it shows Balboa Park in the background, with the words "Site of Exposition Buildings" on the left, where the Exposition was held in 1915. On the right is San Diego High School on Park Boulevard not far from the southern reaches of "City Park," renamed Balboa Park for the Exposition in 1910. Preparations for the Exposition began in that year in San Diego. The Curt Teich number on the back of this card is A-10218, decoding to 1908-1910.
City Park; San Diego; Balboa Park; Panama-California Exposition of 1915; San Diego High School; Eno & Matteson
California - San Diego
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
English
Eno & Matteson, San Diego, California, US
Postcard
3.5 inches x 5.5 inches
No
PC-000-613
[printed superimposed on photograph from upper left]
Proposed Site of the Panama-California Exposition, 1915, San Diego, Cal. In the City Park of 1,400 acres.

[printed above greenery, superimosed on left side of postcard]
Site of Exposition Buildings.

[printed above high school, superimosed on right side of postcard]
San Diego High School.
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TIFF
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