re: recent eBay find. (tonight)
We've seen numerous images of the Raymond Hotel on NLA, but we haven't seen this magnificent cabinet card. [c.1880s]
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1880s-PASADE...gAAOSwPCVX2xKm
W.B. Byram, photographer
Here's a closer look at the hotel. (I think I see telegraph wires)
detail
As most of you know, the original Raymond Hotel burnt down in 1895.
Nathan Masters writes:
"An ember from one of the Raymond Hotel's 80 chimneys landed on the structure's wood shingle roof, starting a fire that destroyed the hotel on Easter Sunday, 1895."
80 chimneys!! I've never heard that before.
Pasadena Museum of History via
https://www.kcet.org/lost-la/souther...south-pasadena
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