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Title
Exterior view of Hotel Willmore, Long Beach's first hotel, ca.1887
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the exterior view of Hotel Willmore, Long Beach's first hotel, ca.1887. The hotel, situated near the coast, is about three-to-four-stories tall. A man watches the waves from the beach (at left).
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m6452
USC-1-1-1-6567 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6105
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6452
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6105.jpg
Subject
Hotels, taverns, etc
Beaches
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--Architecture--Commercial
Willmore Hotel
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-32-30 [Microfiche number]
6105 [Accession number]
CHS-6105 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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