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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

Back of card, San Diego State Normal School

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PC-000-983B
Back of picture postcard of building constructed for San Diego State Normal School, 1898-1910
07/18/1911
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The back of this picture postcard has a mostly legible postmark and a seal of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 as well as a handwritten message and address.
Postage stamps; Postmarks; Panama-California Exposition; Eno & Matteson; Postcards; Picture postcards
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
Yes
PC-000-983A
[postmark] Jul 18 1911
[seal of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915, San Diego]

[handwritten in message panel]
Dear Mother:
Hope these few words find you well. How is the weather down home. It is very dark and sultry up here 90[degree symbol] and thundering most of the time. Well it won't be long now and I'll be home we only have two weeks Betty is coming
Bye Bye Eleanor-

[handwritten in address panel]
Mrs. A. Thilbahr
800 Robinson Ave.
San Diego
California

[Curt Teich number bottom center in green] A-13965

[one-cent postage stamp with ordinary cancellation mark]
[printed in green above message panel] Message
[printed in green above address panel] Address Only On This Side
[along left edge of card]
2951 Published for Eno & Matteson, San Diego, Cal.
  • San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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