PC-000-938

Agnew Hospital and Sanitarium, San Diego, California

 

circa 1910

 

C. T. Photochrom (Curt Teich)

David Gochenauer is given credit for founding the Agnew Hospital and Sanitarium on the northeast corner of Beech at Fifth Avenue. The training school for nurses that was started at a private residence there in 1900 was the first in San Diego. On June 9, 1906, the cornerstone was laid of the new building shown on this picture postcard. The establishment as advertised in the 1907 City and County Directory of San Diego looks like this illustration. In another 1907 publication, the Railway and Tourist Free Guide to San Diego, 2nd edition, the facilities were described as including "roof gardens and large porches for outdoor patients." San Diego History Center's photograph #6723 (1920) looks exactly the same as this postcard and PC-000-937 (same photograph, different publishers and slight differences in coloring), except forthe presence of flags and and plants on the roof, and absence of shadows, some foliage, and streetcar superstructures on the postcard. The postcard also looks like the 1914 photograph incorporated into the Journal of San Diego History for Fall 2002, Vol. 48, No. 4 article "First Annual Report of the Board of Health ..." On the back of the card is a seal of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915, along with the Curt Teich number A-8832.

Agnew Sanitarium; Agnew Hospital; San Diego; Hospitals; Sanitariums; David Gochenauer; Nursing schools; Curt Teich

464 Beech Street

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

Eno & Matteson, San Diego, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

City & County Directory 1907 ad in front, with further entries & ad on p.673; San Diego History Center photo #6723 (1920); San Diego Union Tribune, June 3, 2007, "This Week in History"; PC-000-931 and PC-000-937

[printed superimposed on photograph in upper left corner]
4561. Agnew Sanitarium,
San Diego, Cal.

 

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