PC-000-987

Picture postcard of the San Diego Normal School, San Diego, Callifornia

 

circa 1910

 

Southern Pacific/Union Pacific Railroads

The back of this untraveled picture postcard marks it as one of a series produced as part of promotional photography for the Southern Pacific Railroad between 1890 and 1910. The phrase "On the Road of a Thousand Wonders" was used for the campaign, in this case probably for a spur from the route of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad between Omaha and San Francisco that came as far south as San Diego. This line is shown on a map from the railroads' book The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders from 1908. The sepia-toned postcard shows the original building and expansion constructed for the San Diego Normal School from 1898-1910 (original portion centered here dedicated 1899). This building, designed by Irving Gill (1870-1936), continued to be used as the school changed its name to the State Teachers' College, until the Montezuma Mesa location was occupied in 1931. The view here is almost the same as on PC-000-979 in this collection, as well as in PC-000-988.

San Diego Normal School; State Normal School; Normal schools; San Diego; Irving Gill; Beaux Arts style

4100 Normal Street

California - San Diego - University Heights

 

 

MS-0008

English

California Sales Co. Pub, San Francisco, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-979; PC-000-988; Raymond Starr's San Diego State University: a History in Word and Image, San Diego State University Press, 1995, pp. 21 and 31

[hand printed in white at bottom left, superimposed on photograph]
State Normal School San Diego Cal

 

Image

TIFF

19.70 MB