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Title: Harvard president visits the Raymond Hotel
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1892
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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A large group of people stand by the entrance to the Raymond Hotel to greet Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard. He is shaking a man's hand as he sits in his seat aboard a decorated, horse-drawn bus. "The Raymond" is printed on the side of the bus. Located in South Pasadena, the Raymond Hotel was the first major resort hotel of the San Gabriel Valley and was only opened from December to April. It was built by Mr. Walter Raymond of Raymond & Whitcomb Travel Agency of Boston, Mass. and sat atop Bacon Hill which lies between Pasadena and South Pasadena. Bacon Hill was renamed Raymond Hill with the opening of the hotel in 1886. The hotel burned down in 1895 and was replaced by a second Raymond Hotel in 1903.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078553
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
South Pasadena-Hotels-Hotel Raymond; N-000-264 8x10
CARL0004771902
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/113090
Subject: Eliot, Charles William,--1834-1926
Harvard University--Presidents
Raymond Hotel (Pasadena, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Pasadena
Horse-drawn vehicles--California--Pasadena
College presidents
Raymond, W.(Walter)
Pasadena (Calif.)
South Pasadena (Calif.)

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