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Title: Illustration of proposed Santa Venetia neighborhood development, San Rafael, California, 1914 [illustration]
Creator: Venetia Company, San Francisco
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
Publication Information: Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room
McMahan, Mabry
Contributing Institution: Marin County Free Library
Collection: Santa Venetia, 1914
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Description: This image is the back cover of a brochure published in 1914 by Mabry McMahan to promote his Santa Venetia (Marin County) development plan. McMahan was responsible for filling in Santa Venetia's marshland and creating a series of canals, on which he hoped to build a luxury subdivision modeled after the Italian city of Venice. McMahan's plans failed to be realized due to the economic hardships of WWI. After WWII, San Venetia was developed into one of San Rafael's residential neighborhoods, although not in the style envisioned by McMahan.
Type: image
Format: 1 illustration : b&w ; 15 x 23 cm.
Identifier: csrcl_785
Original Documents Collection, S-17
ark:/13030/kt6t1nf322
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/sv/id/4
Language: English
Subject: Real property--California--Santa Venetia
Santa Venetia (Calif.)--History
Real estate development--California--Marin County
Canals
McMahan, Mabry
Place: Marin County (Calif.)
San Rafael (Calif.)
Santa Venetia (Calif.)
Source: Image from brochure "Views of Santa Venetia, The Newport of the West" ; Original Documents S-17
Relation: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://marinlibrary.org/californiaroom

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