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Image / Drawing of the exterior of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, ca.1890

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Title
Drawing of the exterior of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, ca.1890
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of a drawing of the exterior of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, ca.1890. The massive hotel has seven stories, including a first floor filled with shops. Several of the shops on the right side of the hotel have striped awnings over their windows. The roof of the hotel is flat and is surrounded by a wrought iron fence. There is a flagless flagpole on the right side of the roof. There are several pedestrians walking in the street in front of the building. There is another building visible in the foreground on the left side and it has a rounded tower-like structure on its right corner.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m9236
USC-1-1-1-9372 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10054
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9236
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10054.jpg
Subject
Hotels, taverns, etc
Palace Hotel
San Francisco County--Architecture--Hotels
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
California
San Francisco
USA
Source
1-48- [Microfiche number]
10054 [Accession number]
CHS-10054 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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