Monterey history photo collection

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Pat Hathaway, Photo Archivist

Big Sur Post Office and Pfeiffer's Resort

Big Sur Post Office, 1935, Copyright©1998 California Views

Photo Accession # 71-001-0155
5x7 film negative
by Lewis Josselyn
May 7, 1935

This photo by Lewis Josselyn shows Pfeiffer's Resort and the Big Sur Post Office. South of the Monterey Peninsula on the Big Sur coast in California. Big Sur gets its name from the original Spanish-language "el sur grande". We also have photos of Point Sur Lighthouse, Slate's Hot Springs vicinity is now home to the Esalen Institute, ship landings - doghole ports/landings, and ship wrecks of the Big Sur Coast, Point Sur Light Station and the building of Highway One AKA The Pacific Coast Highway it was completed in June of 1937.
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