Visual Materials

Composition and Rhetoric

Description: Sign on door signed by Laura Gatta, the owner of 208 South Olive, a Victorian house turned into an apartment hotel, one story in front, three stories running down to Clay Street in the back. Demolished around 1959.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1939-1962.
Call number: Neg. 10225
Creator: Hall, Theodore(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Haines, 1993.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Boxes 2-34: Negatives housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Austin, John C. W. (1870-1963.); Newsom, Joseph C. (1861-1935.); Parkinson, John,
Associated organization: Train and Williams (Firm)
Find out more: View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

Image not available
From same location, 1959
Visual Materials
From the same spot three years later. Note that 208 South Olive has been demolished.
Book 3, pg. 39 / Neg. 12826
Image not available
700 W. First Street, corner of Hope
Visual Materials
The Majestic Apartments (1904), designed by Millan Holmes. Later, the Rossmere and the Lima apartments (the sign over its door reads Lima Apts).
Neg. 11212
Image not available
From apartment at 243 S. Olive. Looking N/E, 1956
Visual Materials
From Hall's apartment window. The two large structures, center, are the back of the Hotel Northern at Second and Clay, and the Fashion League building at Second and Hill Streets.
Book 3, pg. 38 / Neg. 8983
Image not available
Part of old door
Visual Materials
Close-up of 233 South Grand, demolished in 1962.
Neg. 10048
Image not available
Detail at West 3rd and Olive streets — 1962
Visual Materials
The Angels Flight Café opened in 1933. The neon sign likely dates to the 1936 remodel. In the distance can be seen the recently-constructed Court House. The Victorian structure to the left of the man is 238/236 South Olive.
Book 1, pg. 44 / Neg. 14089
Image not available
Spiral iron stairway back of hotel on Clay Street near 3rd
Visual Materials
Hotel Central, 310 South Clay.
Neg. 11194