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 Vintage Postcards

1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park







Proposed site for the
Panama-California Exposition

(looking northeast from downtown)

circa 1914

This postcard appears to indicate the originally proposed site in the southwest corner of the park. The eventual site of the exposition would be a bit further from town on the Central Mesa.

Proposed Site of Expo








Meet Me in San Diego

Exposition, Calif.

1915
Meet Me at the Expo







Laguna de Cabrillo and West Approach

Cabrillo Bridge



“The Isthmus” Amusement Street

1915
Istmus








Kern and Taylor Counties Buildings

Approach to La Via De Los Estados
Kern





One of the many colonnades at the
Panama-California Exposition

1915

colonnade







Botanical Building
and Lagoon


circa 1915
Botanical Building



The south side of El Prado
with the Arts and Crafts Building
(in the foreground)

circa 1915
El Prado

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