San Diego Center for Children Photograph Collection, ca. 1920s and 1930s / created by San Diego Center for Children ; [compiled by] Special Collections & University Archives.

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San Diego Center for Children Photograph Collection, ca. 1920s and 1930s / created by San Diego Center for Children ; [compiled by] Special Collections & University Archives.

This small collection consists of sixteen photographic negatives of the San Diego Center for Children. Photos of the interior and exterior of the Balboa Park building, designed by Irving Gill, are included, as well as photographs of children and their adult caretakers. The images date from the late 1920s or 1930s.

16 items : all ill.

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San Diego State University. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.

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San Diego Center for Children

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Historical Note The San Diego Center for Children is San Diego's oldest accredited nonprofit organization serving children and adolescents. It was founded in 1887 as the Women's Home Association and served poor, aged, and destitute women. In 1889 the Women's Home Association formally merged with local philanthropist Bryant Howard's Children's Industrial Home, which served homeless, abused, and delinquent children, many of them orphans. In 189...