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From apartment at 243 S. Olive. Looking N/E, 1956

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1939-1962.
Call number: Book 3, pg. 38 / Neg. 8983
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.

Cumberland Hotel Apartments, 243 S. Olive, 1962

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The Cumberland Hotel (architect: Marsh and Russell, 1904). This is where Hall moved in 1952. There are numerous shots of its interior in the contact sheet binders. Hall moved to the Engstrum Apartments at Fifth and Grand when the Cumberland was marked for razing.

Book 3, pg. 34 / Neg. 14105

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Looking East on 2nd Street, between Grand and Olive, 1953

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The Koster House, on the north side of Second Street, 515 W Second. The mansard-roofed Argyle Hotel, right, sits at Second and Olive. Other lost structures include the Hall of Records, California State Building, and the gasometers at Commercial and Center streets.

Book 3, pg. 32 / Neg. 7102

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From West 3rd, on Olive looking South, 1957

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Partial view of the Casa Alta at right, then from right, the Ems Apartment Hotel at 321 South Olive, the Olive Inn and the Central Garage on the corner of Fourth Street.

Book 3, pg. 28 / Neg. 12693

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Inside Cumberland Hotel Apartments, 243 S. Olive, 1952

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Hall was living here in 1952 per voting registration records. The man pictured here is the manager, Benjamin Abowitz, born in Kovno in 1891. His wife Fannie née Shulman can be seen in the contact prints, Volume 1.

Book 1, pg. 45 / Neg. 5654

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From Apartment building on S. Olive Avenue showing, at right, original Hill on 1st Street

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Looking down Olive to the intersection at Second, shot from the Cumberland Hotel. At corner, the backside of the Claridge Hotel. The Mansard roof structure at Second and Olive is the Hotel Argyle (architect: Robert Brown Young, 1887). See also Photobook Volume 3, pages 38 and 39.

Book 1, pg. 58 / Neg. 7903

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From same location looking a little more south, same date

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Construction of the State Building underway at First and Broadway. Above it stands the Hotel Northern (1910), on Clay Street at Second.

Book 1, pg. 64 / Neg. 12829

From apartment at 243 S. Olive. Looking N/E, 1956

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