Snow-covered Alpine Tavern on Mount Lowe, ca.1890-1930

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Photograph of the snow-covered Alpine Tavern on Mount Lowe, ca.1890-1930. The tavern, nestled amongst a forest of trees, is covered with snow. The tavern stands about three stories tall. A slope descends from right to left.; "At the end of the line, deep in Grand Canyon [i.e. San Martinez Grande Canyon?], straddling the waters of Crystal Springs, and sitting at the foot of Mount Lowe was the Alpine Tavern. So named at its dedication on December 14, 1895, Ye Alpine Tavern was a modest yet imposing Swiss-style Mountain House nestled back into the hillside. It sported 12 guest rooms on its second floor, and had all the amenities of a regular hotel on the first level: kitchen, dining room, lobby, gift shop and business offices." -- unknown author.

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Title Snow-covered Alpine Tavern on Mount Lowe, ca.1890-1930

Subject Alpine Tavern (corporate name), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), housing areas (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Altadena -- Mt. Lowe (file heading), Mountains (lcsh), Snow (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1890/1930

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1890/1930

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5193

Identifier 5035 (accession number), CHS-5035 (call number), CHS-5035 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25738 (legacy record id), chs-m5193 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5295 (legacy record id), 1-38-43 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25738

Unique identifier UC129233

Legacy Identifier CHS-5035.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 14.8 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 37.6 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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