Description
The card is titled "Greetings From Ventura, Cal." There is a montage of small overlapping images of Ventura with captions: "Bean Industry," "San Buena Ventura Mission Founded A.D. 1782," "Town of Ventura," "Beach Scene Ventura" and "Date Palms Planted A.D. 1782." The card has an area in the lower right for the sender to write a message to the recipient. One of the card images shown here has no handwriting on it. The other card has a message written to "My dear daughter Dora" and is signed "Papa."
[Mitchell, Edward H., San Francisco (Private Mailing Card Authorized by Act of Congress, May 19, 1898)]