PC-000-926

San Diego Naval Hospital, Balboa Park, San Diego

 

1960s

 

Paul B. Lowney, Seattle, Washington, US

This is a continental-size, deckle picture postcard with an aerial view of the hospital in the old location at Inspiration Point. Construction was started in 1922 after a tent dispensary established in 1914 was expanded. More land was deeded to the Navy, and finally a new Naval Medical Center in Florida Canyon, Balboa Park, was dedicated in 1988. The back of the card has a statement claiming that the hospital occupied "84.32 acres, 83 buildings, a bed capacity of more than 2000, and daily census of over 1800. The tall white building is the new 1000-bed surgical unit" built in 1957. The publisher's number on the back is 8367-C.

San Diego Naval Hospital; Inspiration Point; United States Naval Hospital San Diego; Hospitals; Aerial views; Naval hospitals

2125 Inspiration Point

California - San Diego - Balboa Park

 

 

MS-0008

 

Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, New York, US

Postcard

4 inches x 5.875 inches

No

San Diego History Center's photographs #90_18138-45 (1925) and #2542 (1930); PC-000-202, PC-000-237, PC-000-241, PC-000-259, PC-000-286, PC-000-290, PC-000-296, PC-000-914 through PC-000-925

 

 

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TIFF

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