Luther A. Ingersoll (1851-1926) was local historian who authored “Ingersoll's Century History, Santa Monica Bay Cities” and “Ingersoll's Century Annals of San Bernardino County.” Born in Detroit, Michigan, Ingersoll moved to California in 1887, briefly working on published histories with Hubert Howe Bancroft before permanently settling in the Los Angeles region the following year. Ingersoll amassed an extensive collection of Southern California photographs which he donated, with great fanfare, to the Los Angeles Public Library in 1915. Ingersoll’s collection served as the foundation for the library’s photo collection. Santa Monica Hotel on Ocean Ave. between Colorado and Utah (now Broadway) in 1880. Hotel burned in 1887. The photograph shows two buildings next to each other.
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