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Depot Hotel, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada. W.R. Chamberlain, proprietor [RR depot] – Antique Print

Depot Hotel, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada. W.R. Chamberlain, proprietor [RR depot] — antique lithograph
Depot Hotel, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada. W.R. Chamberlain, proprietor [RR depot]. Antique lithograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Depot Hotel, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada. W.R. Chamberlain, proprietor [RR depot] comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Depot Hotel, Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada. W.R. Chamberlain, proprietor [RR depot]

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Reno's Depot Hotel stood beside the railroad station, so guests arriving by train could step from the platform straight to a room, and this lithograph shows the hotel under the proprietorship of W.R. Chamberlain. Reno grew up around the Central Pacific line, which reached the area in 1868, and the depot district became the town's commercial center. The view was published by Britton & Rey, a San Francisco lithography firm known for its western town views, and it appeared in Thomas Angel's *History of Nevada* in 1881, opposite page 112. The print is a useful record of how a railroad hotel announced itself to travelers in the early 1880s.

Medium1 print : lithograph.
Notes1881
SubjectsLithograph by Britton & Rey. Illus. in: Angel, History of Nevada, 1881, opp. p. 112. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--Business; Railroads--Stations; Nev.--R-; Hotels--Nev.; Artists, Publ. I.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,172 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136466

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