Image of a rendering of the proposed Santa Monica Hotel in Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica Hotel was a project designed by architect Myron Hunt but never realized. "Santa Monica Hotel, Myron Hunt, architect, May 1919"--text, on item. Printed information about building on verso, beginning: "The Santa Monica Beach Hotel, to be erected under the direction and promotion of the Santa Monica Beach Association of Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Hollywood and Pasadena, will be situated at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance of Palisades Park, with sea and beach frontage of 1200 feet. ..." and handwritten message: "This is going to be built in Santa Monica pretty soon. Mrs. Dunkin was here yesterday but I didn't see her because I was at Helen B. Well so long. Here is a kiss. How did you like my picture on the post card?" Title and date transcribed from item. Image reproduced in Ernest Marquez publication: Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial History (Angel City Press, 2004), page 147.
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image
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image/jpeg
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1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.5 x 13.5 cm (postcard format)
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