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Title: 1895 Smith Creek Hotel
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Photograph of the front of the Smith Creek Hotel. It was also known as the Santa Ysabel Hotel. The hotel was located on the banks of Smith Creek on Mount Hamilton Road. This road led from San Jose to Lick Observatory. A group of ladies sits on the front steps of the hotel. Two gentleman stand on the veranda behind them. The standing man on the right may be Thomas Snell, owner and builder of the hotel. Another gentleman stands to the left of the ladies. This may be a photograph of the hotel staff taken shortly after the hotel opened in 1895.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scaled to 3000 pixels width. Grayscale strip cropped from image. Scanning outsourced to Northern Micrographics as part of the Local History Digital Resources Project, 2005-2006. Technical metadata is limited
Extent: 8 x 8 cm.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/671
Language: English
Subject: Buildings
Hotels
Men
Women
Snell, Thomas, b. 1830
Place: Santa Clara County
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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