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Vintage California Postcards
A wonderful exhibit of old postcards from a USGenWeb Archives Web Site.
Vintage postcards from the San Diego Historical Society's extensive collection of San Diego area postcards. You can order prints of these postcards.
Historic postcards of the Exposition staged by San Diego in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. San Diego would be the first American port of call north of the Panama Canal on the Pacific coast.
The Call/Spreckels Building was built in 1898 by the Reid Brothers. Although the building still stands today (on the corner of Market and Third), it no longer has its dome and looks quite different. These vintage postcard images are a web tribute to that beautiful old original building.
The California Room has a small collection of historic postcards depicting scenes in San Jose, Santa Clara County, and California.
From John McKinney's rustic Hunter's Retreat in the 1860s to such posh turn-of-the-century resorts as the Tallac Hotel and Tahoe Tavern, the life of early day vacationers was made vivid for those at home by postcards.