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[Castle Hill Hotel, Lexington, Va.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Castle Hill Hotel, Lexington, Va.] — historic photograph
[Castle Hill Hotel, Lexington, Va.]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Castle Hill Hotel, Lexington, Va.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Castle Hill Hotel, Lexington, Va.]

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Castle Hill Hotel stands in Lexington, Virginia, a small college town in the Shenandoah Valley known for Washington and Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute. Hotels in towns like this served traveling salesmen, rail passengers, and families visiting students and faculty, so they were often among the largest and most visible buildings on their streets. The caption card does not record a date, so the photograph's exact period is uncertain. Still, the view of the building itself offers a useful glimpse of how a Southern town presented its lodging to visitors when photographic prints of hotels were widely made and sold.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,248 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121174

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