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 view of the Rosslyn Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, 1905. The façade of this four-story building is symmetric. There are two fire escape ladders at each end of the building. Attached to the fire escape ladders is a pipe with valves (faucet) at each fire escape ladder well. The first floor consists mostly of stores with their own unique window advertisements and displays. A man is standing in front of the "wines & liquor" store. To the right of the building is a small shack on the corner of an empty lot. The lot is littered with debris. To the left is Hotel Lexington. Legible signs include: "Lexington Hotel", "Holmes Book Co.", "Land & Lee's Dictionary", "the Lexington café", "last week price 75¢", "note books", "law and medical", "school books", "regular meals, 25¢", "Hotel Rosslyn dining parlors", "the Hotel Rosslyn", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co.", "433", "Hart Bros. Props", "barber", "429, wines & liquors", "Mont[...] [...]monga, Vineyard Co.", "family trade, solicited, no bar", "XLNT", "A.P. Johnson", "C.J. Ball", "long drinks in small bottles, Aetna Splits, the new size", "up ... feet trim", and "Ed Herwick".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm. glass plate negatives photographic prints photographs
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