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[Aerial views: San Diego Waterfront, Calif.] – Vintage Print

[Aerial views: San Diego Waterfront, Calif.], c1935. — historic photograph
[Aerial views: San Diego Waterfront, Calif.], c1935.. Historic photograph from the San Diego collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Aerial views: San Diego Waterfront, Calif.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Aerial views: San Diego Waterfront, Calif.]

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Few mid-1930s views of San Diego look down on the harbor as directly as this aerial study of the waterfront, which the caption card links to the Navy, hotels and the working edge of the bay. By about 1935, San Diego had grown into a major Pacific port, with naval vessels and facilities occupying much of the shoreline and hotels rising in the downtown district nearby. Harry A. Erickson registered the photoprint for copyright, and the record's subject headings point to the same mix of military, commercial and civic life that shaped the city's waterfront in those years. Looking closely at the piers and rooftops shows how tightly the harbor and town were bound together.

Created / publishedc1935.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Harry A. Erickson. No copyright renewal. No. 35-142-1. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Navy, U.S.; Hotels; Waterfronts.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149606

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