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Raymond Hotel photographs
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Raymond Hotel photographs
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Four card photographs depicting exterior of the Raymond Hotel and the surrounding landscape in Pasadena, California (and what is now South Pasadena) during the final stages of construction in 1885 and 1886. Three of the photographs are cabinet cards and photPF 596 is a stereograph. Photographer imprints are E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 593-594) and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 595). Stereographs 597, 598 and 599 have been moved to Stereo file: photST.
photPF 593-599
Col. Wentworth and staff when he was manager of the Raymond Hotel
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A hotel staff of almost 50 people, including men in chef's hats, and women in white dresses, pose out on the porch of the Raymond Hotel. General Marshall C. Wentworth, the manager, stands on the far right holding a little girl on his hip.
photPF 798
First Raymond Hotel, South Pasadena
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Exterior view of the multi-story Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, California (in what is now South Pasadena), with a porch that wraps around entire building, in the final stages of construction. An individual in a hat, sits at the top of a stone stairway leading up the hill to the hotel. Grounds are not yet landscaped.
photPF 595
Raymond Hotel, South Pasadena
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Exterior view of the multi-story Raymond Hotel, with a porch that wraps around the entire building, in Pasadena, California (in what is now South Pasadena), in the final stages of construction. Men, presumably construction workers, stand on suspended platforms outside the upper level windows. A horse-drawn carriage and a few people are scattered out in front, which at this point is not landscaped.
photPF 594
The first Raymond Hotel
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Wide view of a multistory hotel and the lavish grounds surrounding it. A small outbuilding sits to the right of a curved drive that leads up to the hotel through the landscaping.
photPF 797
Bird's eye view of valley showing Raymond Hotel to the right
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Wide view of open land and agricultural fields dotted with houses and dirt roads. In the distance, the large Raymond Hotel sits atop a razed hilltop in Pasadena, California (on the border of what is now South Pasadena).
photPF 596