Hotel De Soto, Savannah, Ga. – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hotel De Soto, Savannah, Ga.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hotel De Soto, Savannah, Ga.
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The Hotel De Soto stood in Savannah, Georgia, a city that drew winter visitors in the early 1900s with its squares, mild climate, and Spanish-named streets. The hotel took its name from Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer who traveled through the Southeast in the 1500s. This view comes from a glass negative made around 1900 by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed American towns, resorts, and landmarks to promote railroad travel. Hotels like this one were social centers as well as lodgings, with dining rooms, bars, and lobbies where guests and locals met. The negative's survival through a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado shows how these travel views moved between collections.
| Created / published | c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives.Reproductions. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04863. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. |
| Subjects | Hotels. Resorts.United States--Georgia--Savannah. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 7,381 × 5,586 px · prints to 25 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | tif18072_HotelDeSotoSavannah |
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