Veterans' Hospital, Fort Miley, overlooking the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California, circa 1940

Subjects: Aerial Views & Panoramas Hospitals & Sanatoria Lighthouses
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Veterans' Hospital, Fort Miley, overlooking the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard — Back

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An elevated view looks down on the sprawling white hospital complex of Fort Miley, with its central tower, red-roofed outbuildings and a circular flower-bed drive, set in green hills above the water; a lighthouse on a rock and a steamer appear in the blue expanse beyond, with the Marin headlands rising in the distance. The card names the site as the Veterans' Hospital at Fort Miley, overlooking the Golden Gate. Fort Miley, a U.S. Army coastal defense post on the western edge of San Francisco, became the site of a large Veterans Administration hospital complex in the 1930s, and the lighthouse offshore is the Point Bonita Light on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate.

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PublisherStanley A. Piltz Company

VETERANS' HOSPITAL, FORT MILEY, OVERLOOKING "THE GOLDEN GATE" 89 © STANLEY A. PILTZ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. OB-H2761 POINT [illegible] LIGHTHOUSE --- VETERANS' HOSPITAL, FORT MILEY (Overlooking the Golden Gate) Covering a ground area of 43 acres, this recently completed group of 17 modern build- ings erected at a cost of $1,500,000.00, is located picturesquely above the Golden Gate. This Government Hospital cares for both men and women Veterans. STANLEY A. PILTZ COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. POST CARD PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE “Pictorial Wonderland” ART-TONE SERIES 89

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Publisher	Stanley A. Piltz Company
Series	89
Condition	Very good
Place depicted	Veterans' Hospital, Fort Miley, San Francisco, CA
Place mentioned	San Francisco, CA
Place mentioned	Fort Miley
Notes	Linen-textured stock with a cream/white border; Curt Teich production code OB-H2761 printed vertically at right edge; small red caption line at bottom center partly trimmed by the image. No postmark. Divided-back linen postcard; clean, no damage.

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Veterans' Hospital, Fort Miley, overlooking the Golden Gate, San Francisco, California, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/veterans-hospital-fort-miley-overlooking-the-golden-gate-san. Accessed October 24, 2026.