File:Exterior view of the Rosslyn Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, 1905 (CHS-5145).jpg

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Exterior view of the Rosslyn Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, 1905
Photograph of the exterior view of the Rosslyn Hotel on Main Street, looking south from Winston Street, 1905. The faASSade of this four-story building is symmetric. There are two fire escape ladders at each end of the building. Attached to the fire escape ladders is a pipe with valves (faucet) at each fire escape ladder well. The first floor consists mostly of stores with their own unique window advertisements and displays. A man is standing in front of the "wines & liquor" store. To the right of the building is a small shack on the corner of an empty lot. The lot is littered with debris. To the left is Hotel Lexington.; Legible signs include: "Lexington Hotel", "Holmes Book Co.", "Land & Lee's Dictionary", "the Lexington cafA(c)", "last week price 75AC/", "note books", "law and medical", "school books", "regular meals, 25AC/", "Hotel Rosslyn dining parlors", "the Hotel Rosslyn", "R.D. Bronson Desk Co.", "433", "Hart Bros. Props", "barber", "429, wines & liquors", "Mont[...] [...]monga, Vineyard Co.", "family trade, solicited, no bar", "XLNT", "A.P. Johnson", "C.J. Ball", "long drinks in small bottles, Aetna Splits, the new size", "up ... feet trim", and "Ed Herwick".
Call number: CHS-5145
Legacy record ID: chs-m1284; USC-1-1-1-1329
Filename: CHS-5145
Coverage date: 1905
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5145
Microfiche number: 1-6-121
Archival file: chs_Volume26/CHS-5145.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): buildings
Architect: Young, R.B.
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: 1905
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Commercial -- Hotels #4
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Main Street & 5th Street
Subject (lcsh): Hotels, taverns, etc.; Bookstores
Subject: Richlieu Hotel; Holmes Book Company
Date (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/2159
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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