Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
About the Collection
The Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection features a selection of postcards that provide a considerable breadth of coverage and features prominent California businesses and shopping centers, resorts, parks, celebrities' homes, amusement parks and rides, earthquakes, transportation, religious and educational institutions, as well as general views.
The entirety of the Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection is one of the largest publicly-accessible postcard collections in the United States. It contains approximately one million postcards from around the world, dating from the beginnings of postcard production in the late 19th century, and extending to the present.