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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of the exterior of San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, ca. 1905. The hotel as three identical tall brick towers all three are topped by flag poles, and American flags fly on the outside two, while a narrow banner is on the middle one. The hotel overlooks a park, at the center of which there is a tall marble column topped by a statue of a person reaching skyward. On the streets below, there are motor cars and the famous San Francisco cable cars. The hotel was destroyed by a fire on April 18, 1906.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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