Monterey history photo collection

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Big Sur Post Office, 1935, Copyright©1998 California Views
Big Sur Pictorial Collection

Photo Accession CV # 71-001-0155
5x7 film negative
by Lewis Josselyn
May 7, 1935

Big Sur Post Office and Pfeiffer's Resort

This photo by Lewis Josselyn shows Pfeiffer's Resort and the Big Sur Post Office. South of the Monterey Peninsula on the Big Sur coast in California. Big Sur gets its name from the original Spanish-language "el sur grande". We also have photos of Point Sur Lighthouse, Slate's Hot Springs is now home to the Esalen Institute, and vicinity ship landings - doghole ports/landings, and ship wrecks of the Big Sur Coast, Point Sur Light Station and the building of Highway One AKA The Pacific Coast Highway it was completed in June of 1937.
And the Bixby Creek Bridge and Rocky Creek both built in 1932. We have one of the largest photo collection of the history of the Big Sur Coast.
To see color photos of Big Sur by Pat Hathaway.
We have over 35,000 historical California images listed in our database and can provide a computer generated list by subject, place, date, photographer and format or any combination of the above for a small fee.

Holdings: over 28,000 Photos of Monterey County listed in our database. Aerial photos of the Carmel and Big Sur area.

Holdings: over 1400 photographs of Big Sur Notley's Landing, and the Big Sur coast and some of the Big Sur Notables such as Henry Miller, airship USS Macon (ZRS-5) that went down off Point Sur on the Big Sur coast on February 12, 1935.
And over 81,955 historical California images in our Photo Archives.
Please click to see more Big Sur photos and over 200 Searchable California Photo galleries with over 2,400 Photos
Prints are available from 11x14 to 40x60 inches.
All images are also available for editorial downloads and one-time editorial use.
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This page was first created on May 11, 1996
This page was last updated on October 1, 2019
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