PC-000-764A

Real Photo Post Card of George W. Marston House, with partial message

 

05/08/1910

 

A. L. Marston

The George White (1850-1946) and Anna Gunn (1853-1940) Marston House was built by the couple in 1905 using architectural plans by William Hebbard (1863-1930) and Irving Gill (1870-1936). A photograph in possession of the San Diego History Center shows the same house as in this photograph from the same angle, in 1905 before landscaping had been accomplished. The style of this postcard is that of the Real Photo Post Card (RPPC), a process by which an amateur or professional photographer can take a "snap shot," as photographs were sometimes called at the time, and have it developed using special printout paper, directly onto preprinted postcards for mailing. By 1910, photographs of this type had not always enlarged to fill the card, since until 1907 postal regulations forbade any writing on the "undivided back" of the postcard except for the address. Although this card has the "divided back" and special message space of the later cards, the writer filled the space on this side as well with a short message. On the other side, the further message is signed by "A. L. Marston."

Marston House; William Hebbard; Irving Gill; Marston House Museum & Gardens; A. L. Marston; San Diego; Historic houses

3525 Seventh Avenue

California - San Diego - Balboa Park

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

Yes

PC-000-764B

[handwriten in black ink rom photograph to right edge]
Gleanings from postals,--"Splendid time in Japan. Sail from Kobe on P&O Line & stop at Port Said, Cairo & Marseilles. Do not go to Italy before fall."

[postmark]
Troy, [N.] Y.
May 8
8-AM
1910 [?]

 

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TIFF

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