California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of the dirt road in front of the Hotel Metropole in Avalon, 1901

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View of the dirt road in front of the Hotel Metropole in Avalon, 1901

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Photograph of a view of the dirt road in front of the Hotel Metropole in Avalon, 1901. The three-story hotel can be seen at right. It is a wooden building with a wide covered porch and a covered balcony. Several large plants and bushes decorate a grassy area in front of the building. A low, light-colored fence around the yard is made of whale jaw bones. A wide dirt street can be seen at left, and a collection of buildings is visible in the background at left. Several pedestrians are walking in the street. A line of tall hills can be seen in the distance. The hotel was destroyed by fire November 1915.

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Title View of the dirt road in front of the Hotel Metropole in Avalon, 1901

Subject buildings (adlf), Fences (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- Street scenes (file heading), Metropole Hotel (subject), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Avalon (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1901

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1901

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5533

Identifier 32822 (accession number), CHS-32822 (call number), CHS-32822 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26052 (legacy record id), chs-m5533 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5647 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26052

Unique identifier UC129613

Legacy Identifier CHS-32822.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.0 in × 16.7 in at 300dpi
53.5 cm × 42.4 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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