San Diego History in Photographs, Sourced and Credited

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The Downtown Waterfront

There was a Japanese neighborhood built out over the water, and in 1942 it was emptied in six days.

Behind the Van Camp cannery, at the foot of Crosby Street, San Diego had a neighborhood standing on pilings over the bay. The Journal of San Diego History describes it plainly. "In back of the cannery over the waters of the bay were the homes of many of the Nikkei who were involved in the tuna industry." Children grew up out there. Donald Estes names some of them: Osa Himaka, Masato Asakawa, Haruki Koba, a boy called Lefty Okomoto, watched over by older fishermen like Namiki San as they "lived, worked and played on the wharf over the bay."

Workers standing outside the Normandy Sea Food Company processing building in San Diego, California, around 1918 — **Outside the Normandy Sea Food Company, San Diego, around 1918**J. A. Bruce Commercial Photography, about 1918. Industries and Occupations Photographs Collection, PH Coll 1123.6.

Workers inside a San Diego seafood processing building loading carts with canned product, around 1918 — **Inside the cannery, around 1918**Industries and Occupations Photographs Collection, PH Coll 1123.7, annotated 1918.

Attendants registering arrivals at the Santa Anita reception center in Arcadia, California, assigning them family by family to quarters, April 1942 — **Registering arrivals at Santa Anita, family by family, April 1942**Clem Albers, April 5, 1942. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Japanese American families identifying hand baggage before being moved out of the assembly center at Santa Anita, California, 1942 — **Families identifying hand baggage at Santa Anita, 1942**U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1942. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, digital id cph.3c33633.

La Jolla

A woman spent ten years building a pool so children could swim safely. The seals have it now.

Ellen Browning Scripps was in her eighties when she started. She had lived in La Jolla since 1897, and she had watched the cove take people. The article of record on the project quotes the problem plainly: a rapid cross current, and an ocean that had "taken toll of human life" more than once. Scripps put it in her own terms. "I have always had an innate interest in children, particularly those handicapped in life's game."

The rocky shoreline and surf at La Jolla, California, photographed in 1887, forty four years before the Children's Pool breakwater was built — **La Jolla Beach, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Bankers Hill and Uptown

San Diego had cable cars, and the men who built them were running the bank that killed them.

San Diego had cable cars. Real ones, gripping a moving cable under the street, the same machinery San Francisco is famous for. They opened in June 1890 with the governor of California riding in the first car.

The Morse-Pierce Building on the corner of Sixth and F streets in San Diego, photographed in 1887, with an unpaved street in front of it — **Sixth and F streets, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

National City

The Pacific end of the Santa Fe was National City, and they got it by moving a piece of track in the night.

The first transcontinental train on the Santa Fe route did not leave from downtown San Diego. It left from a two story wood building on what is now West 23rd Street in National City, and that building is still standing.

The two story wood National City railroad depot of 1882 seen from across the railroad tracks, with a boxcar standing against its west side — **The depot from across the tracks**Edward Gohlich, January 1996. Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. CA-2654. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

The California Southern Railroad track curving around the base of a steep brush covered canyon wall in Temecula Canyon, photographed in 1887 — **Temecula Canon, the Big Curve, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A single railroad track running between sheer rock walls in the narrowest part of Temecula Canyon, photographed in 1887 — **Temecula Canon, the narrows, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

The California Southern Railroad track on a low embankment beside a dry boulder creek bed in Temecula Canyon, photographed in 1887 — **Temecula Canon, track beside the creek, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

The east elevation of the National City railroad depot, a two story Italianate wood building with tall narrow windows and wide overhanging eaves — **East elevation**Edward Gohlich, January 1996. Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. CA-2654. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

The painted iron door of the railroad safe inside the National City depot, set in an original 1882 brick wall, lettered California Southern R.R. Co. — **The safe door, first floor**Edward Gohlich, January 1996. Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. CA-2654. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Del Mar

The road is named for a man who never owned a share of the place.

The road into the Del Mar Fairgrounds is Jimmy Durante Boulevard. The turf course inside is the Jimmy Durante Turf Course. The state of California lists the property's official address as 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd.

Color portrait of Jimmy Durante in a grey suit, tipping his hat back with both hands and laughing, photographed in 1948 — **Jimmy Durante, 1948**Harry Warnecke. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.94.44. Released CC0.

Color postcard looking north from Torrey Pines over the San Dieguito river valley toward Del Mar, published between 1908 and 1928 — **Torrey Pines, looking north over the valley that became the fairgrounds**Postcard published between 1908 and 1928. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pcrd-1a00903. No known restrictions on publication.

Studio portrait of Bing Crosby published in 1932 — **Bing Crosby, president**Radio Album: Life Stories and Portraits of the Radio Stars, Syndicate Publishing Company, 1932. Public domain.

Color portrait of Oliver Hardy in a bowler hat and dark suit, photographed in 1938 — **Oliver Hardy, officer**Harry Warnecke. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.94.47. Released CC0.

Paramount Pictures publicity portrait of Gary Cooper, 1936 — **Gary Cooper, executive committee**Paramount Pictures publicity portrait, 1936. Public domain.

Inscribed 1929 publicity photograph of Eddie Jackson, Jimmy Durante and Lou Clayton seated in a row in hats and suits, holding a mop and a broom — **Eddie Jackson, Jimmy Durante and Lou Clayton, inscribed and dated May 8, 1929**Mitchell Photography Studio, New York, 1929. Public domain.

The Spanish Colonial Revival paddock building at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, with tile roofs, arches, palms and a bell tower — **The paddock. The mission detailing survived; the 1937 grandstand did not.**Photograph by Stickpen, 2010. Public domain.

**Oliver Hardy**The New Movie Magazine, February 1930. Public domain.

Coronado and North Island

North Island was an island, and the Navy filled the channel with the bay.

You can drive onto North Island. For most of its history you could not, because there was water in the way.

An aerial photograph of North Island in San Diego Bay taken in September 1924, showing the flat island with the naval air station buildings along its shore and open water separating it from Coronado — **North Island from three thousand five hundred feet, September 1924**United States Navy, September 10, 1924, from three thousand five hundred feet. National Archives and Records Administration, identifier 295437.

A low aerial photograph of the naval air station on North Island in May 1922, showing rows of hangars and barracks on flat open ground with ships at anchor in San Diego Bay beyond — **The station on the flat, May 1922**United States Navy, May 19, 1922, from two thousand feet. National Archives and Records Administration, identifier 295435.

An aerial photograph taken in 1995 looking west across North Island, showing continuous built ground where the Spanish Bight channel used to be — **The same ground, 1995**Historic American Buildings Survey, 1995. HABS No. CA-2652, HABS CAL,37-SANDI,33-1. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Solana Beach

The gap in the bluff at Solana Beach was cut with a fire hose.

There is a notch in the sandstone bluff at Solana Beach that everyone walks down to get to the sand. It looks like the ocean made it.

Fletcher Cove in Solana Beach photographed in 2013, the park at the top of the cut in the bluff with palms, steps and railings leading down through the gap to the sand and the ocean beyond — **Fletcher Cove, 2013**Rosalynn Carmen, October 7, 2013. Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0.

Lake Hodges Dam, a tall multiple arch concrete dam set between rock hillsides, with the concrete intake channel of the flume running along the ground in the foreground — **Lake Hodges Dam, with the head of the flume at left**Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. CA-307-1. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

The rocky shore and surf on the coast at Del Mar photographed in 1887, dark reefs in the foreground and open water beyond, with no development in sight — **The coast at Del Mar, 1887, before anyone cut it**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Palomar Mountain

San Diego County built a road around the turning radius of one piece of glass.

The road up the south side of Palomar Mountain is county route S6. People drive it every weekend without knowing that its curves are the shape they are because of the dimensions of a mirror.

The 200-inch Pyrex telescope disk standing on edge in the Caltech optical shop in Pasadena in 1936, its back face cut into a deep honeycomb of ribs, with two men standing at its base for scale — **The disk in Pasadena, April 1936**Los Angeles Daily News, about April 10, 1936. UCLA Library Digital Collections, ark:/21198/zz0025fsv1. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Catalogued there as a lens; it is a mirror.

Seven people standing around the 200-inch telescope mirror lying face up on its grinding machine in the Caltech optical shop in December 1945, the honeycomb pattern visible through the glass — **Back on the grinding machine, December 1945**Paul Calvert. Published in "Work on Mount Palomar Telescope Mirror Resumed," The Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1945, page 3.

Rancho Santa Fe

A railroad planted a forest here for lumber. It got Rancho Santa Fe instead.

The name sounds like a Spanish land grant. It came off a subdivision map.

Flower gardens and patio at the Spanish Inn, Rancho Santa Fe, 1928 — **Flower gardens and patio, Spanish Inn, Rancho Santa Fe**The Architect and Engineer, July 1928. Public domain.

Street scene in the Rancho Santa Fe village, 1928 — **Street scene, Rancho Santa Fe**The Architect and Engineer, July 1928. Public domain.

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford photographed together in 1920 — **Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, 1920**Bain News Service. Library of Congress, ggbain.30611. Public domain.

Pump house on the Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford estate at Rancho Santa Fe, 1928 — **Pumphouse, estate of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Rancho Santa Fe**L. J. Rice, Architectural Supervisor. The Architect and Engineer, August 1928. Public domain.

Julian

The building called the Julian Hotel is not the Julian Hotel.

The two story frame building on Main Street in Julian that takes guests under the name Julian Hotel was built in 1897 and it was not called that for the first twenty four years of its life. It was the Hotel Robinson. It was built by Albert Robinson, who the San Diego History Center records as a formerly enslaved person from Missouri, and his wife Margaret, who ran it.

The Hotel Robinson in Julian, California in 1900, a two story frame building with a sign reading Hotel Robinson over the front porch and a man seated in a horse drawn buggy in the road outside — **The Hotel Robinson, 1900**Photographer unknown, 1900. National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Julian Hotel (Hotel Robinson), reference number 78000747. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

A small white schoolhouse standing alone on a bare hillside below the mountains in the Banner district near Julian, photographed in 1887 — **The Banner district school, below Julian, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

The Julian Hotel on Main Street in Julian, California, photographed in 2008, a two story cream coloured frame building with a covered porch and cars parked along the street in front — **The same building, 2008**Allan Ferguson, March 2, 2008. Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Ocean Beach

There was a fifty foot wooden bridge from Ocean Beach to Mission Beach.

From 1915 to 1950 you could get from Ocean Beach to Mission Beach without going inland. You rode a streetcar over the water.

The sandstone shelf and sea cliffs at Ocean Beach photographed in 1887, surf running over flat rock in the foreground and a man in a hat seated on the cliff edge at upper right — **Ocean Beach, March 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887. This is Ocean Beach two months before the subdivision map was filed, not the bridge site.

Oceanside and the San Luis Rey Valley

The oldest pepper tree in California came off a ship.

In 1830 a sailor up from Peru handed over some seeds at Mission San Luis Rey, and Father Antonio Peyri planted them. The mission's own account of it is plain. "The first pepper trees in Alta California were planted by Fr. Antonio Peyri using seeds brought to San Luis Rey in 1830 by a sailor from Peru." The mission says the tree standing in its quadrangle today is the oldest living pepper tree in California.

Mission San Luis Rey photographed in 1887, the bell tower and church front standing over walls that are visibly crumbling, with roof missing in places and the long cloister arcade running off to the left — **Mission San Luis Rey, March 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

The surviving brick cloister arcade at Mission San Luis Rey in 1936, a long run of arches receding into the distance with a broken pillar in the foreground — **The cloister arcade, 1936**Henry F. Withey, November 1936. Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. CAL-42. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Mission San Luis Rey photographed from across open ground in November 1936, the restored white church and its dome standing among trees — **The mission restored, November 1936**Henry F. Withey, November 1936. Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. CAL-42. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Sherman Heights and Golden Hill

A San Diego neighborhood cost eighty dollars.

In June 1867 Matthew Sherman bought a hundred and sixty acres of San Diego from the City Trustees at fifty cents an acre. Two years later he subdivided it, and in November 1869 the San Diego Union carried his lot sales at an average of a hundred dollars apiece. One lot paid for the whole tract and left him twenty dollars ahead. The ground is still called Sherman Heights.

San Diego photographed in 1887 looking southeast from a rise, scattered wooden houses and open dirt lots in the foreground falling away to the built up town beyond — **San Diego looking southeast, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Villa Montezuma at 1925 K Street in San Diego, a Victorian house with an onion dome, a corner turret and patterned shingle walls, photographed in 1964 with palms in the yard and a late 1950s car at the curb — **Villa Montezuma, 1925 K Street**H. G. Hanekamp, 1964. Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS No. CAL-432. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Campo and the Mountain Empire

The Army put its last cavalry post at Campo, and the county record says why.

In 1941 the United States Army built a cavalry post sixty miles southeast of San Diego, in a valley at Campo with almost nobody in it. By the end of the war nearly three thousand Black soldiers were stationed there, on horseback, patrolling the border.

A 1943 United States Army map headed Camp Lockett, Campo, California, showing two separate cantonment areas, stable rows and the road and rail lines through the valley — **Camp Lockett, 1943**United States Army, 1943. Reproduced by the County of San Diego, Camp Lockett Master Plan environmental record.

A woman sitting outside a thatched Kumeyaay house at Campo, California, tying bundles of reeds, with a dog lying in the dirt beside her, photographed about 1924 — **A Kumeyaay house at Campo, about 1924**Edward S. Curtis. Published in The North American Indian, volume 15, plate 525, 1926. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ds-11043.

Middletown and Uptown

A San Diego neighborhood was platted in 1850 and nobody built on it for seventy years.

Middletown was surveyed, subdivided into streets and blocks, and drawn on paper in 1850. That is seventeen years before Alonzo Horton bought the land that became downtown. The City of San Diego's own historic context statement says it plainly: the tract "predated even Horton's Addition."

San Diego photographed in 1887 looking west toward the harbor, a windmill and water tower over scattered frame houses, young trees and a picket fence, with open dirt lots between them and Point Loma on the horizon — **San Diego looking west, 1887**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Around the county

The six regions

**Sweetwater Dam, San Diego County**T. S. Van Dyke, Southern California, 1885. Public domain.

A mountain ranch in the San Diego County backcountry — **A mountain ranch, San Diego County**T. S. Van Dyke, Southern California, 1885. Public domain.

**The ruined arches and entrance, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia**California Historical Society, CHS-707, about 1900. Public domain.

**Campanario and cemetery gate, Asistencia of San Antonio de Pala**Historic American Buildings Survey, Henry F. Withey, October 1936. Public domain.

**The lagoon and Botanical Building, Panama California Exposition**San Diego, 1915. Public domain.

**Hotel del Coronado from the beach**About 1900. Public domain.

Story in progress

The 1915 Point Loma Road Race

Three hundred miles through the streets of Point Loma on January 9, 1915. The article is being written.

**Racers line up for the start of the Point Loma Road Race**January 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain. Credited by the archive to The Old Motor.

**The Point Loma Road Race gets underway**January 9, 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Eddie Rickenbacker passing the grandstand in his Peugeot. He did not finish, a broken connecting rod**January 9, 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Bob Burman driving Peugeot number 6**January 9, 1915. Dan Abbott Collection, Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Bob Burman and Peugeot number 6, with a blown engine**January 9, 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Fred McCarthy's Peugeot, number 9. Out with a broken connecting rod**January 9, 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Glover Ruckstell in Mercer number 4, alongside Jack Gable**January 9, 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Billy Carson in car number 2, one of the finishers**January 9, 1915. Panama California Exposition Digital Archive. Public domain.

**Earl Cooper takes the checkered flag in the number 8 Stutz. Photographed at Tacoma, not Point Loma, six months after he won here**July 4, 1915. Marvin D. Boland, Tacoma Speedway. Public domain.

**Bob Burman in a Peugeot number 9 on a dirt road course. Photographed at Tacoma**1915. Marvin D. Boland, Tacoma Speedway. Public domain.

**Glover Ruckstell in a Mercer. Photographed at Tacoma**1915. Marvin D. Boland, Tacoma Speedway. Public domain.

**Bob Burman. He was killed at Corona in April 1916**About 1910. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication.

Story in progress

Surfing in San Diego

George Freeth, Duke Kahanamoku and the 1918 Ocean Beach drownings. The article is being written.

**Duke Kahanamoku beside his own board, his name on the deck**1910. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication.

**George Freeth, the Los Angeles Athletic Club's new swimming instructor. He came to San Diego about 1915**Mercury, the Los Angeles Athletic Club magazine, photograph by Bach. Published before 1931. Public domain.

**Boys with a surfboard on the beach at Waikiki**1919. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication.

**Beach and cliffs, La Jolla, California**1912. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication.

Duke Kahanamoku crouched on a starting block at the edge of a pool — **Duke Kahanamoku on the starting block**Dated 1912 by the file it came from. The plate carries the numbers 5411 and 8,824-A. Photographer and holding archive not established.

San Diego in 1887

Picturesque San Diego, 1887

Douglas Gunn published Picturesque San Diego in 1887. Seventy two photogravures, every one from a photograph taken by Herve Friend in a single month, March 1887. Seventy one are shown here. Plates 53 and 55 are the same view of the Babcock and Story wharves, printed twice, so the second one is left out. The captions are transcribed off the plates themselves rather than from the book's index, which is wrong in several places. One credit line covers all of them.

Two tall date palms inside a low white picket fence on bare ground, a board fence and a shed at the right, dry hills behind — **Old Palm Trees, foot of Presidio Hill.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A sailing ship lying off a high dark headland, a wave breaking across the foreground and wet sand beyond — **Point Lonea, and Entrance to San Diego Harbor, from Coronado Beach.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887. The plate is printed "Point Lonea." The place is Point Loma; the error is the book’s, and the caption is transcribed as printed.

A long adobe mission church with a gabled roof and a crumbling ruined facade, standing alone on open dry ground — **Ruins of the Old Mission, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A low adobe mission and its outbuildings seen across a dry field, old trees and palms around the buildings — **Old Mission of San Diego, from the Olive Grove.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A rutted dirt road running down a bare treeless valley toward distant hills, a few small buildings in the middle distance — **Scene of the Battle of San Pasqual, December 6, 1846.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A mission church with a domed bell tower, a long arcade of arches running off to the left and sections of wall in ruins — **Mission San Luis Rey.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A freestanding stone bell tower holding two bells, beside a long tile roofed adobe building on dry ground — **Bell Tower, Pala Mission.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A town of scattered frame houses and young trees seen from a rise, dirt streets and a windmill tower at the left — **San Diego, looking West, Point Loma in Right Distance.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A town seen from a hill looking toward the water, frame houses and dirt streets in front, a bay with ships beyond — **San Diego, looking Southwest, Coronado Beach opposite.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A town of frame houses seen from a hillside, a dark shingled house in the foreground, open water on the horizon — **San Diego, looking Southeast.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A three masted sailing ship moored at a wharf with smaller schooners alongside, the low town along the shore behind and choppy water in front — **City Water Front, Babcock & Story Wharves.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A two story courthouse with a pedimented portico and an iron fence, young conifers at one side and a dirt street in front — **County Court House, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

The inside of a bank, a long carved wooden counter with grilled teller windows and ornate arches overhead — **Interior Consolidated National Bank, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A large three story school building with a cupola and arched windows, standing alone behind a post and rail fence on bare ground — **The "Russ" Public School, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A four story commercial block on a street corner, bay windows up every floor and a domed corner tower, shops at street level — **Morse-Pierce Building, corner Sixth and F streets, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A wooden Gothic Revival church with a tall shingled spire, smaller gabled buildings beside it and a wide dirt street — **St. Paul's Episcopal Church, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A large house with a balustraded flat roof, bay windows and a verandah, standing on a bare lot above a dirt road — **Residence of A. E. Horton.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A four story corner bank building with tiers of bay windows, awnings over the ground floor shops, horses and wagons in the dirt street — **First National Bank, corner Fifth and E streets.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A three story brick commercial building on a corner, a real estate office at street level, people and buggies along the sidewalk — **Woolwine, Sprigg & Nerney's Abstract and Real Estate Office, cor. Fourth and D streets.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A garden with a vine covered arbor arch in the middle of a gravel drive, shrubs and young trees around it, a bare hill behind — **The Dells, Chollas Valley, Suburbs of San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A tall white stone obelisk standing alone on a low bluff above the sea — **Initial Monument, marking Mexican Boundary.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A dirt crossroads with a few board buildings and a fenced yard, tall thin trees along the road and several people standing in the open — **Tia Juana, American Side.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A wide sandy street with a horse and buggy, low board and adobe buildings along both sides and a cane fence at the right — **Tia Juana, Mexican Side.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A tall jagged sea stack rising off a sand and cobble beach, a second lower rock beside it — **"Point of Rocks", 1.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A long low rock reef running out into surf, waves breaking white along its near side — **"Point of Rocks", 2.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A single blocky sea stack standing in breaking surf, more rock showing through the water in front — **"Point of Rocks", 3.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A pen and ink drawing of a very large resort hotel with turrets, dormers and long verandahs, drawn figures and young palms on the lawn in front — **Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado Beach, San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). This plate is a pen and ink drawing, not one of the book's photographs. The hotel opened in February 1888, ten months after Herve Friend took the photographs for this book.

High layered sea cliffs curving away above a narrow beach, surf running along their base — **The Caves, La Jolla.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Surf breaking over a low rock shelf in the foreground with a long sandy beach and cliffs behind — **La Jolla Beach.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A large flat topped rock standing just off the shore with surf around it, low cliffs running away in the distance — **Cathedral Rock, La Jolla.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A sandstone point cut through by a natural arch, water pouring back off the rocks in the foreground — **"Ocean Beach."**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A low dark reef in the foreground with open ocean beyond and a long line of small surf — **Seaside View at Del Mar.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A ranch seen from a field, a horse and buggy at a gate in the foreground, farm buildings and orchard trees and mountains behind — **Escondido, Old Ranch House and Orange Orchard.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A small lake with reeds and willows along the far bank, two rowing boats of people with parasols on the water — **View on Linda Lake, El Cajon Valley, 15 miles from San Diego.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A large ornate wooden hotel with a tower and wide porches, a windmill and water tank at one side and mountains behind — **The Hotel at Murietta.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A single railway track curving along the floor of a steep brush covered canyon — **Temecula Cañon, 1. "The Big Curve," C. S. R. R.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A railway track running between high broken rock walls in a narrow canyon — **Temecula Cañon, 2.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A railway track on an embankment beside a rocky creek bed at the bottom of a canyon — **Temecula Cañon, 3.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A low white ranch house and barn on a rise above a bare pruned vineyard, rounded hills behind — **Santa Margarita Ranch House, from the Vineyard.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A single story house with a tiled roof seen across its garden, a gravel path to the open front door, cypress and pepper trees around it — **Courtyard, Couts' Estate, Guajome.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A dirt road coming around a hillside with a horse and wagon on it, oaks and dry brush above, a valley beyond — **View near Entrance to Bear Valley.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A wide shallow river running over a sandy bed between willow thickets, a bare rounded hill behind — **View in San Pasqual Valley, Bernardo River.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A steep hillside covered in loose boulders and low brush rising to a rocky crest — **"Eagle's Nest", Agua Caliente Mountains.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A spreading oak standing alone in dry grass, bare mountains running along the far side of a valley — **Santa Rosa Mountains, near Elsinore.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A brushy canyon with a watercourse running down it, mountains in the far distance through a gap — **View from "The Glen", Agua Tibia and Pala in Distance.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A broad dry wash with scattered brush, a large oak at the right and a long mountain ridge behind — **San Jacinto Mountain.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A steep rocky peak rising above brush and a sandy wash in the foreground — **The Cajon Mountain, from the Northeast.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A small white wooden schoolhouse with a bell cupola on a hillside, a dirt track leading up to it and mountains behind — **Public School (Banner District) near mouth of San Felipe Cañon.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A low ranch house among large sycamores, outbuildings to the right and a swept bare yard in front — **Home and Orchard of John Mitchell, Fall Brook.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A still pond reflecting bare trees along its edge, a brush covered hillside and mountains behind — **Agua Tibia, The Pond.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A bare pruned orchard on a slope with a farmhouse and outbuildings among trees on the hillside above — **Orchard and Home of James Madison, Julian.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A very large spreading oak beside a lake, a small house and haystacks under it and a man standing in the field — **View at Elsinore Lake, West Side.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A white farmhouse with a porch on a hillside above a ploughed orchard, pines along the ridge behind — **Home and Orchard of Chester Gunn, Julian.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A dirt road running through a valley with a horse and buggy on it, a large tree at the right and farm buildings and a windmill beyond — **View in Poway Valley.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A rocky stream running between willow and sycamore banks with a bare mountain rising behind — **San Diego River, North of El Cajon.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A wide lake with a wooded far shore and a rocky peak rising beyond it, tall pines at the right — **Cuyamaca Lake, Storage Water of San Diego Flume Co.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A low masonry diversion dam built across a rocky creek bed, loose stone piled against it and a hillside behind — **Diverting Dam, San Diego River, San Diego Flume Co.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Large spreading oaks standing in an open grassy valley floor with hills on both sides — **Upper Valley of the San Diego River, "Capitan Grande."**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A waterfall dropping down a bare rock face into a narrow gorge, broken boulders and brush below — **Falls (146 ft.) East Branch of San Diego River.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A creek winding through a wide open valley, low scrub in the foreground and rounded hills beyond — **Santa Isabel Creek.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

Water falling through a jumble of large boulders in a narrow wooded ravine — **Falls of Pauma Creek.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A rocky field with a large stand of prickly pear cactus in the foreground, a ranch house and outbuildings and a bare hill behind — **View near Farm of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Spring Valley.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A pen and ink drawing of a curved masonry dam holding back a reservoir in a mountain valley, lettered Sweetwater Dam — **Water Works of San Diego Town and Land Company.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). This plate is a pen and ink drawing, not one of the book's photographs.

A hillside orchard of young bare trees, farm buildings and a line of poplars along the ridge above — **Gedney's Orchard, Mesa Grande.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A white wooden schoolhouse with a bell tower and arched trim, oaks on both sides and open grass in front — **Public School, Spencer Valley, near Julian.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A valley with a windmill at the left, a farmhouse and fenced yard among trees, and a sharp peak behind — **Orchard and Farm of B. S. Sheckler, Cottonwood.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A wide dirt street with a two story board hotel at the left, scattered houses and sheds, and brushy hills behind — **Campo.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A sandy track running up between huge rounded granite boulders piled on both sides — **Entrance to Colorado Desert, mouth of Mountain Springs Cañon.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A rocky brush covered mountainside falling away to a wide flat valley far below — **Mountain Scenery, Agua Caliente, Overlooking Warner's Ranch.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A low adobe building with a thatched roof on a bare dirt street, a man leading a horse past it and children standing nearby — **Indian Village, Agua Caliente.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

A long low adobe building with a tiled roof and a porch, a person sitting in the doorway, a bare rounded hill behind — **Indian Village and Church at Pauma, Upper San Luis Rey Valley.**Douglas Gunn, Picturesque San Diego, with Historical and Descriptive Notes (Chicago: Knight and Leonard Co., 1887). Photogravure from a photograph by Herve Friend, March 1887.

The photographs.

The 1915 Point Loma Road Race

Surfing in San Diego

Picturesque San Diego, 1887