PC-000-935

Picture postcard of County Hospital, San Diego, California

 

 

 

 

San Diego County Hospital was described in 1907 as "Situated on th edge of the plateau overlooking Mission Valley, a short distance west of First street. The Upper Fifth street cars run within half a mile of the hospital." The San Diego History Center's Photograph #1194 (1904) looks almost exactly like this except for landscaping. Other buildings had been added by the time a photograph was taken in 1928 that appeared in the Spring 1989 issue of the Journal of San Diego History. Until 1880, the County contracted with the lowest bidder for care of indigents. In that year, the County established the County Hospital and Poor Farm. The first building in 1889 was on the south side of Mission Valley, but the hospital moved in 1904 to a site adjacent to the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center at Hillcrest. UCSD took over the County Hospital sometime in the 1970s. The publisher number on the back of this hand-tinted picture postcard made in Germany is L 95.

San Diego County Hospital; San Diego Hospitals; County hospitals

 

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

Newman Post Card Co., Los Angeles, Cal.

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

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Journal of San Diego History Spring 1989 v35 #2, "Hospital Based Nursing Schools in San Diego, 1900-1970" and Winter 1991, V37, #1, G. B. Wexler, "A Few More Pieces of the Puzzle"; San Diego History Center photograph #1194 (1904); PC 000-934

[printed in red superimposed on photograph at top left]
San Diego Country [sic] Hospital, Cal.

 

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