The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Winter 1973, Volume 19, Number 1
James E. Moss, Editor

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San Diego in 1905

Page 10. San Diego in 1905, as Smythe knew it, looking southwest from 7th and Ash.

William Ellsworth Smythe

Page 11. William Ellsworth Smythe

Imperial Avenue, looking north, in Imperial, California, 1905

Page 13. This is Imperial Avenue, looking north, in Imperial, California, 1905. As early as 1901, William Ellsworth Smythe “had been touched by a vision of the future greatness of Imperial Valley . . .”