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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SDHC_120711_094.JPG: Spectacles, c 1840 Belonged to Pio Pico, the last Mexican Governor of California
2. SDHC_120711_129.JPG: Register of the San Diego Hotel, 1869-1877
3. SDHC_120711_146.JPG: Register from the Horton House Hotel, 1870-1886
4. SDHC_120711_157.JPG: Alonzo Erastus Horton, c 1880 by William Thurston Black Land developer who was responsible for building New San Diego, shifting the city away from Old Town.
5. SDHC_120711_204.JPG: San Diego Backcountry, 1936 by Charles Reiffel
6. SDHC_120711_226.JPG: Reginald WIlloughby Machell The Prodigal, c 1895
7. SDHC_120711_287.JPG: AJ Roberts Fanciful Interpretation of What the Panama-California Exposition Would Look Like, c 1913 Done for promotional purposes for the Panama-California Exposition, depicts proposed Exposition grounds with buildings, lake and gondolas
8. SDHC_120711_319.JPG: Tuna! Celebrating San Diego's Famous Fishing Industry
9. SDHC_120711_351.JPG: Allegorical Sculpture of Justice, ca 1888
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Wikipedia Description: San Diego History Center
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The San Diego History Center is a museum showcasing the history of San Diego, located in the city's Balboa Park.

Founded in 1928 by businessman and civic leader George W. Marston, the San Diego Historical Society was housed in the Mission style Jun�pero Serra Museum on Presidio Hill, the site of the earliest settlement in San Diego and California. The original building was designed by architect William Templeton Johnson. In 1982, the San Diego Historical Society moved its collections and research library to the Casa de Balboa building in Balboa Park (maintaining the Serra Museum as an auxiliary museum and education center), and the Society changed its name to the San Diego History Center in 2010.

Of special note among the museum's collections are the Historic Clothing and Textile Collection, which includes over 7,000 items illustrating the history of dress from the late 18th century to the present, and the San Diego Fine Art Collection, notable for its early 20th century plein air paintings, with works by Maurice Braun, Alfred Mitchell, Charles Fries, Belle Baranceanu, Charles Reiffel, Alice Klauber, and Donal Hord.

In addition to its museum exhibits, the History Center maintains a research library and archives serving residents, scholars, students and researchers. The Document Archives, the region’s largest collection of historical materials, holds over 45 million documents including public and architectural records, books, maps, scrapbooks, manuscripts, newspapers, ephemera, diaries and oral histories.

The photograph collection, with 2.5 million photographs, is one of the largest regional photography collections in the United States. It includes a large number of 19th and early 20th century images of the San Diego region acquired in 1979 from the Union Title & Trust Insurance Company; important additions to the collection in the 1980s and 1990s include the entire collection of the San D ...More...
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA), a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean, another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else.. Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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