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Title: "Wayfarers' Chapel Portuguese Bend, California"
Contributor: Watson, George E. (photographer)
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978 (architect)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Palos Verdes Library District
Collection: Postcard Collection
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Description: Color postcard image shows view of Wayfarers' Chapel. Postcard printed on reverse with "Built by the Church of the New Jerusalem as a national memorial to Emanuel Swedenborg, upon whose teachings the Church was founded, this unique chapel, designed by Lloyd Wright, stands on a knoll overlooking the Pacific, not far from Point Vicente and Marineland. / 'Man's ruling love remains after death, nor is it ever changed to eternity.' - Swedenborg." Also printed with "Another SceniKrome, Pub and Dist. by Golden West, 2583 Maine Avenue, Long Beach 6, California U.S.A.," "GW 6-A," "Color by R.E. Risher; MCMLX by Geo. E. Watson."
Date Built: 1951
Library has digital image only, courtesy of postcard collector Paul Nitchman.
Type: image
Format: 1 postcard; 3.5 x 5.5 in.
Identifier: pvld:1348
bar code: 000015396
Subject: Chapels--California, Southern
Time Period: 1951-1960
Place: Portuguese Bend (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Wayfarers Chapel (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Palos Verdes Peninsula (Calif.)

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