Ramona’s Marriage Place, San Diego, California
This is an unused postcard published by M. Kashower Co. of Los Angeles, California featuring a tinted photograph of the chapel where Helen Hunt Jackson’s main character in her novel Ramona is supposed to have been married. The number 5 appears to the left of the title at the top of the card.
Specializing in comic cards, holiday greeting cards, and
postcards, the M. Kashower Co., was in business from 1914 to 1934. They published cards using several different
printers including Van Ornum ColorprintCompany.
Based in Los Angeles, it should come as no surprise that many of the cards
featured places in Southern California. The company logo is found at the top of the center line on the reverse.
Logo used by the M. Kashower Co.
Casa de Estudillo or Estudillo House is a historic adobe house built around 1825-1827 in San Diego. It was originally built by and belonged to the family of José María Estudillo and his son who were early settlers of San Diego. It was considered one of the finest houses in Mexican California. In 1906 the sugar magnate and businessman, John D. Spreckels, bought the house and restored it. It was opened to the public in 1910 as a tourist attraction and is one of three sites associated with the story of Ramona designated as National and California Landmarks. However, according to the novel Ramona was not married in this chapel but was married in the Adobe Chapel, another building located in Old Town, San Diego. The Adobe Chapel is now a museum than can be rented as a wedding venue.
Poet and writer, Helen Maria Fiske Jackson (1830-1885), wrote the novel Ramona in 1884 to dramatize the federal government’s mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican-American War. The book was popular, attracted attention to her cause, and was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times. “…most readers liked the book for its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content.”
For additional information, see:
https://www.sohosandiego.org/reflections/2006-2/ramona.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_de_Estudillo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson
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