Name/Title
Photo Crolls Hotel (the Real Estate Building, 1903Entry/Object ID
1995.218.1Description
Acc. No. 95.218.1
Subject Category: BUSINESSES - Crolls Hotel
Date or Period: Ca. 1903
Object: Photograph
Description: Sepia-toned albumen print mounted on charcoal paperboard. Photographer unknown. Descriptive label and old catalog sticker are affixed to lower and upper left margins, respectively, of the mounting. Some damage to image: fading, plus date "1903" written in ballpoint ink on lower right corner.
Size: L-10 x W-12 in.
History of Object:
View of Crolls Hotel at corner of Central Avenue and Webster Street, then known as the "Real Estate Building, Group of men, as well as boys with their bicycles, are standing under the portico. Noteworthy is the apparently shattered window glass in the building, possibly due to a locomotive explosion.
Acquired from: Ernest J. Probst (1958)
Date: 9/2/95
Pre-1971 donation, old cat. #261
