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Title
Bella Union Hotel
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
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 old Bella Union Hotel, standing on North Main Street, across from the post office. Built originally as a one story adobe by Don Benito Wilson, for whom Mount Wilson is named, it later was improved. This photo shows it in 1876 when it was still a center for banquet, weddings, funerals, and even an occasional shooting duel. Photograph dated: July 8, 1936.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00046373
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 226.
CARL0000050372
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/16379
Subject
Bella Union Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Wilson, Benjamin Davis,1811-1878

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