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GM680 Anonymous real photos – (wide white border)
Published by the Southern California View Company (see below)
All have in common a wide white border; sepia real photos; Azo paper
Fisrt section has titles in upper case, sans-serif upright block letters:
- Birdseye View of the Exposition
- Botanical Garden
- Cabrillo Bridge from the Park #
- Cabrillo Puente (vertical)
- California Tower, San Diego 1915 PC-ABC (vertical)
- Feeding the Pigeons PC-ABC
- Formal Gardens
- Juniperra (sic) Serra Memorial (vertical)
- Laurel St Entrance (see also GM810 same photo and title, no border)
- Painted Desert #
- Panama California Exposition 1915 (distant vertical view)
- Pergola # (vertical)
- Sacramento Building *
- San Joaquin Valley B’ld’g. *
- Spreckels’ Organ
- Southern Co’s B’ld’g
- The Isthmus
- The Lagoon (vertical)
- The Lagoon (same photo, Botanical building included at left)
- The Prado
- Varied Industries B’ld’g.
Titles slant right in upper and lower case letters (in faint light box, most with “P.C.E. 1915”):
- California Tower P.C.E. 1915 # (vertical)
- Botanical B’ld’g P.C.E. 1915 #
- Feeding the Pigeons P.C.E. 1915 (2 women in f/g)
- Foreign Arts Bldg P.C.E. 1915 #
- Home Economy Bldg P.C.E. 1915 #
- Horticultural Building P.C.E. 1915
- International Harvester Bldg P.C.E. 1915
- Machinery Hall P.C.E. 1915 #
- Sacramento Valley B’ld’g P.C.E. 1915 #
- San Diego 1915 # (vertical)
- Tropical Gardens P.C.E. #
- Washington B’ld’g P.C.E. 1915
Titles slant right in faint light box as above but all in upper case letters:
- A Nook in the Japanese Tea Garden
- New Mexico B’ld’g. P.C.E. 1915 #
- Spreckels Organ P.C.E. 1915
- Spreckels Organ P.C.E. 1915 (same view as above, title moved)
- Utah B’ld’g P.C.E. 1915
No title or subtitle:
- (California Building & Tower, Cabrillo Bridge (vertical) #
Note: Cards above marked * are from the John R. and Jane Adams Postcard Collection, courtesy of San Diego State University’s Special Collections, Malcolm A. Love Library.
Note: Many of the above views are included in a booklet of photos in the collection of the San Diego Historical Society, entitled “San Diego City and Expo. Views” published by Southern California View Company. Some views in this booklet are listed under GM680 and GM700 and GM810. Views from this booklet included above are marked # if the postcard has not been seen. It seems clear from study of this booklet that all above variations and GM670 and GM700 were published by the Southern California View Company. Style is also similar to GM710 and GM735.