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Title: Hotel Barbara Worth, El Centro
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Exterior view of the Hotel Barbara Worth, located at Seventh and Main streets in El Centro. The hotel was named after Harold Bell Wright's best-selling book, The Winning of Barbara Worth, a historical novel set in what is now the Imperial Valley. Constructed in 1914 and opened on May 8, 1915, the hotel was a popular destination for many years, but was destroyed by fire on January 21, 1962. A Shell sign indicates that a service station is located directly outside of the image frame on the left.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073574
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
El Centro-Hotels-Hotel Barbara Worth.
CARL0000076568
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114807
Subject: Hotel Barbara Worth (El Centro, Calif.)
Shell Oil Company
Hotels--California--El Centro
El Centro (Calif.)

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