The Hotel Redondo, ca.1900

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Photograph of the Redondo Hotel and gardens, ca.1900. Looking southeast up a long walkway to the hotel. Several people are standing in the gardens and on the path. The majestic three-story hotel is Victorian in design. A flag is flying in the distance.; "Hotel Redondo 1890-1925. Messrs. Thompson and Ainsworth from Portland Oregon formed the Redondo Hotel Company. They received a 22 acre tract from the Dominguez Sisters for $5.00. The hotel was opened May1, 1890. There were 225 rooms and a bath on each floor. The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego is a sister operation built at the same time. The hotel was closed in 1925 and sold for $200.00, for scrap lumber." -- unknown author.

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Title The Hotel Redondo, ca.1900

Subject buildings (adlf), Hotel Redondo (subject), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Redondo Beach -- Architecture -- General (file heading), Resorts (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1895/1905

Type images

Format 1 photoprint : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.; 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1895/1905

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-m1141

Identifier 2131 (accession number), CHS-2131 (call number), CHS-2131 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2021 (legacy record id), chs-m1141 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1183 (legacy record id), 1-42-2 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2021

Unique identifier UC117380

Legacy Identifier CHS-2131.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.7 in × 15.4 in at 300dpi
50.0 cm × 39.2 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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