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Title
[Theosophical Society Headquarters, Point Loma], views 1-3
Contributor
Tingley, Katherine Augusta Westcott, 1847-1929
SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1906]
Publication Information
[Point Loma, Calif.] : Lomaland Photographic Series I, copyright by Katherine Tingley
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
2004-0505
PHOTO: SAN DIEGO CO.: POINT LOMA: BUILDINGS: THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS
Three views of the buildings and grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters in Point Loma (1897-1942); influenced by Katherine Tingley, then head of the Point Loma Theosophical Society; shows bulging and turreted domes of romanticized Islamic architecture of the Raja Yoga School, a department of the school of Antiquity (later Lomaland School), Greek stoa of fluted Doric columns supporting Greco-Roman pediment, exotic shrubs on cliffs above Pacific Ocean. Now, Point Loma Nazarene University. Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.); ca. 1906.
Views 1-2 (2004-0505, 2004-0506), turreted domed buildings and grounds -- View 3 (2004-0507), Greek stoa.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
3 photographic prints as postcards ; 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001385811CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9084
Subject
Theosophical Society (Chennai, India)
Râja Yoga School
Schools--California--Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)
Buildings--California--Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)
Architectural elements
Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)--Photographs
San Diego County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photographic postcards
Place
California
Point Loma (San Diego, Calif.)
San Diego County (Calif.)

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