Hotel Punta Gorda, Punta Gorda, Florida – Historic Reproduction
![Hotel Punta Gorda, Punta Gorda, Florida, [1890] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dd/dd1e49729f87-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Hotel Punta Gorda, Punta Gorda, Florida in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Hotel Punta Gorda, Punta Gorda, Florida
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Hotel Punta Gorda stood on the shore of Charlotte Harbor on Florida's Gulf coast, and this view records the town when it was still a young resort and railroad settlement. The Punta Gorda hotel was built by Henry B. Plant, whose rail and steamship lines pushed the area into the tourist trade in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The picture is one of a set of small Kodak card photographs from about 1890, a format that made amateur snapshots of southern hotels and towns widely shared. Its informal, compact size is worth noticing alongside the more formal studio views of the same era.
| Created / published | [1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Kodak card photographs 1890.Photographic prints 1890. |
| Subjects | Hotels & taverns--Florida--Punta Gorda--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,291 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179700 |
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