Palace Hotel, new Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. – Antique Print
(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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A window into the past: Palace Hotel, new Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Palace Hotel, new Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal.
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Few hotels in San Francisco carried as much weight as the Palace, which banker William Ralston opened on New Montgomery Street in 1875 as one of the largest and most lavish hotels in the country. This glass negative, made around 1906, captures the building in the years before the April 18 earthquake and the fires that followed gutted much of its interior. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large-scale views of American cities and landmarks, catalogued the image, and its subject tags point to the disaster that reshaped the city's downtown. The hotel was rebuilt and reopened in 1909.
| Created / published | c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | 3171" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019205. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Earthquakes. Hotels.United States--California--San Francisco. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 779 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-62651 |
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