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Main Street Looking West postcard
View looking down Main Street. There are buildings on either side of the street, and cars are parked along the street. Postcard looks illustrated. Hotel Baldwin and Hotel DeLeon visible. Caption at top reads: "1202:- Main Street Looking West,…

Genoveva Spring at Wheeler's postcard
View of a spring with several people standing around it. The spring is in the foreground, with a small bridge over it. The people are standing next to or sitting on the rocks behind the spring. There are signs on the rocks. Caption at bottom reads:…

Matilija Stage Coach postcard
View of a stagecoach being pulled by a team of horses. People are sitting both inside and on the top of the stagecoach. There is a row of houses in the background. Caption at bottom reads: "Matilija Stage Coach, Ventura Co., Calif."
[Detroit…

County Hospital postcard
View of the County Hospital, a large building with a balcony over the porch. People are standing on the balcony. There is a garden next to the building. Caption at bottom: "County Hospital, Ventura, Cal."
[Mitchell, Edward H., San Francisco, Cal.,…

Main Street, Ventura postcard
View looking down Main Street at Oak Street. There are buildings on both sides of the street. Cars are parked on the streets. The building signs are visible in the image, including Rexall Drugs and F. W. Woolworth Company.
[Roberts, Mike Natural…

Fifth Street postcard
View looking down Fifth Street. There are buildings on both sides of the street. Cars are parked along the right side, and two people are walking down the middle of the street. Caption at bottom: "Fifth Street, Looking East, Oxnard, Ventura Co.,…

Rancho Santa Clara del Norte postcard
Advertising card for agricultural land, discussing irrigation potential and climate. It is decorated with a cornucopia and fruits. Bottom right corner "Geo. C. Power 152 Main St. Ventura, Cal."
[No publisher stated]

House Moving postcard
View of a house moving, which is on a platform hitched to mules. There are people sitting on the house and standing by the mules. Sign on house states "R.E. Brakey & Son Contractors; Buildings Raised and Moved Ventura." Caption at top reads: "House…

Center of Ventura postcard
Bird's-eye view of Ventura. There is a street on the left side of the image, and there are buildings on the right side. Mountains are visible in the background. Caption at bottom reads: "The Center of Ventura, Calif."
[Detroit Publishing Co.…

Fir Street postcard
View of Fir Street intersection. There is a large house on both corners. The street is lined with trees, and there is a car driving on the street. Caption at bottom reads: "Fir Street, Ventura, Cal.'
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (C.T. American Art),…

Chautauqua Grounds Postcard
A scene of the coast in Ventura, California (as listed). A green field has a path cut through it, leading to a large brown house (?) is slightly to the right of center, surrounded by small white tents. Smaller brown buildings are at either edge of…

Bird's Eye View of Buena Ventura Postcard
An angled aerial view of downtown Ventura, with the Mission visible to the left of center. Most of the area is still green, but there are some large buildings scattered along the same road as the Mission. The ocean is visible off in the distance.…

Ventura By the Sea Postcard
View of Ventura from atop a hill. Many buildings/houses pictured, but most are indistinct aside from Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital. The image includes the ocean and a clear view of Santa Cruz island and the edge of Anacapa.
[Detroit Publishing…

Panorama of Ventura Postcard
A panoramic view of Ventura, looking over houses and towards the mountains. A red train cuts across the left of the image, just past a railroad intersection with a large street.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal (Panama/California Exposition, San Diego,…

Ventura Bath House Postcard
A large, 3-story rectangular grey building with an American flag on top and many cars lined up in front and along the side. A few people, appearing to be men and women alike, are seen coming out and going towards the entrance. The parking lot is…

Coast Highway Showing Rincon Sea Wall and Oil Fields Postcard
A scene of green mountains next to the ocean. A road divides the mountains from the water, and in the center of the image, the stacks of the oil fields are on either side of the road.
[Kashower, M. Co., Los Angeles, Calif., 1200 & 31724]

Ventura Beachfront & Wharf(Historic View; Untitled, on card) undated PC
A black-and-white panoramic shot of the beach by the Ventura wharf, taken from on the pier. Many people and animals dot the beach. Various houses are behind them on a slight hill. (Historic View; Untitled, on card) undated
[VELOX in stamp area]

Souvenir, Ventura, Cal., 1913 Postcard
A black-and-white collage of prominent sites in Ventura: the plaza, San Buenaventura Mission, the courthouse, a new bridge (Ventura River Bridge), an aerial shot of a residential area, and a "surf scene" of a beach.
[Photos by Dingman]

Thousand Oaks, California postcard
A shot of an oak tree standing by itself in a field on the right. In the background are many more trees, possibly all oaks. A blue metal building is partially visible through the shrubbery in the bottom left of the shot.
[Columbia Publishing, 11401…

Administration Building, Camarillo State Hospital postcard
View of the hospital administration building and bell tower from across the street. One car is parked in front of the building, and another is approaching.
[Kolor View Press, Los Angeles, CA 90064 (Pub. & Dist. by Woody Gillette, 1204 W.Nectarine,…

Methodist Church, Oxnard postcard
A drawing of the Church, a large, grey building on a street corner. The entrance is rounded with steps and columns, but the sides of the building are straight with yellow stained-glass windows.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (C.T. American Art),…

Entrance to Sulphur Mt. Springs postcard
A square wooden arch with Sulphur Mt. Springs in white on a black background. Above it is a smaller sign that says 'automobiles slow down'. The left-hand leg of the arch as two US flags, one above the other, and the right-hand leg has one, with a…

Santa Susana Pass postcard
Green mountains stretch off into the distance, a highway cutting through them. An orange car has pulled to the side of the road, with a group of people standing next to it at an overlook.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, CAl. (C.T. American Art), R-83325]

Grammar School, Oxnard Postcard
A cream-colored building with a red roof and columns around the front entrance on a street corner. A flagpole with an American flag stands in the lawn surrounding the schoolhouse.
[Brakey, J.R., Ventura, Cal. (C.T. American Art), A-80123]

Ventura Bath House, Ventura, California undated postcard
The inside of a bathhouse. The majority of the picture is a swimming pool, with dark blue-green water. Roughly a dozen people (gender unclear) are in the water, and a long yellow slide leads down from an upper level, packed with people behind a…
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