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Tijuana Photograph Postcard Collection

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

A small collection of postcards documenting tourism in Tijuana, Mexico. The majority depict tourists in automobiles near the U.S.-Mexico border, including many Panama California Exposition visitors from the San Diego area in 1915. The postcards feature the international boundary line, the race track, saloons, souvenir shops, the border monument, the customhouse, restaurants, and other notable tourist sites. Many of are real photo postcards, or photographic postcards. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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84 items found in this collection

Automobile passengers outside the Bazaar Mexicano

Automobile passengers, Tijuana, Mexico

Automobile passengers, Tijuana, Mexico

Automobile passengers with "On the boundary line" and "U.S. & Mex." pennants

Automobile passengers with "On the boundary line" pennant

Automobile passengers with "On the boundary line U.S. & Mexico" pennant

Automobile passengers with Tijuana, Mex. pennant

Automobile passengers with Tijuana, Mex. pennant

Automobile passengers with Tijuana, Mex. pennant

Automobile passengers with Tijuana, Mex. pennant outside the Bazaar Mexicano

Bazaar Mexicano and the fort, Tijuana, Mexico

Border station, Tijuana, Mexico

Boundary monument between U.S. and Mexico, San Diego, Cal

The bridge, Tijuana, B. C., Mexico

Caesar's Hotel, Tijuana, Mexico

Cia. Comercial building, Tijuana, Mexico

Crowd near U.S.-Mexico border monument

Curios shops, comercios de curiosidades, Tijuana B.C

De lux room, Monte Carlo Club, Tia Juana [sic], Mexico

Family with donkey at U.S.-Mexico border monument

The Fort, Tijuana, old Mexico

Fronton Palace, home of Jai Alai, Tijuana, B. C., Mexico

Green Line tour vehicle enroute from San Diego to Tijuana, Mexico

In Tia Juana [sic], Mexico

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