Exterior and interior views of hotel and bungalows, including Wilshire Boulevard facade, swimming pool, grounds and bungalows, dining and banquet rooms, chapel, and the Zephyr Room. Some photographs used for hotel brochure. See bibliographic citation. Negatives previously rehoused. Samuel James Chapman erected the first Chapman Hotel building in 1925. The hotel also included over a dozen bungalows spread across its 5-acre grounds. The Chapman Park Hotel was located directly across the street from the original Brown Derby Restaurant. An addition was completed in 1936, and the hotel was demolished in 1967. "Los Angeles' Garden Hotel Chapman Park" [brochure], http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/01/160607.pdf.
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Number of items: 51 ; Black-and-white negatives (39 - Item numbers 004, 006, 010, 011, 017 have writing on the emulsion side of negative) ; Color transparencies (12)
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