Name/Title
Balboa BayEntry/Object ID
2016.83.39Description
A photograph postcard featuring an image of several docks along a long channel with houses at the other end. This post card is identified as Balboa Bay, though it is most likely the are directly around Newport Island in the photograph due to the strage nature of the channel, which does not occur in the Balboa area except along Grand canal and the doc types do not match Grand Canal.
Back:
Newport-Balboa
This lagoon-like bay is the home of the Pacific Yacht an Balloon club whose members can sail over the islands that dot the bay or sail the harbor, where Yankee smugglers once hid out. The bay was formed by the Santa Ana River, by 1915 the river had to be diverted into a new channel near Huntington Beach, it had filled the bay with silt. In 1872, a pier and warehouse built here made Newport a commercial port only to fall behind San Pedro in 1898. The bay has one of the largest fleet of pleasure boats on the Pacific Coast.
...M.P. (Merle Porter)
The photograph was copyrighted and pbulished by Royal Pictures, Colton California 92324Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PostcardNomenclature Sub-Class
Writing MediaNomenclature Class
Written Communication T&ENomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for CommunicationCreate Date
April 5, 2019Update Date
December 15, 2020
