Image of barracks No. 2 and 4 at Soldiers Home, a care home for veterans opened in 1888. "Barracks No. 2 and 4 Soldiers Home, Santa Monica, Cal."--text, on item. "For fine views of picturesque Santa Monica and for Photographs and Tintypes in bathing costumes, do not fail to call at the Pacific Photograph Gallery, on the beach, at the Arcadia Pavilion. The instantaneous process used altogether. H.F. Rile, Artist. Santa Monica, California."--text, advertisement on verso. Title transcribed from item; date supplied by cataloger based on the history of the facility the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, a domicile and hospital for Union veterans of the Civil War, opened west of Los Angeles in 1888 on land donated by real-estate developers. Senator John Jones of Santa Monica helped develop the facility. (- Source: "The Soldiers’ City: Sawtelle, California, 1897–1922" by Cheryl L. Wilkinson, Southern Calif. Quarterly, Vol. 95 No. 2, Summer 2013)
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