Name/Title
"No. 97. Pico House, Los Angeles, Cal."Entry/Object ID
2010.438.1.2Description
"No. 97. Pico House, Los Angeles, Cal.," originally photographed by Alexander C. Varela, Los Angeles, ca. 1878 and republished by Isaiah W. Taber, San Francisco, ca. early 1880s. The view is taken from the west side of Main Street in front of the Plaza Church and shows the north and west facades of the hostelry. On the street is parked a car of the Spring and Sixth Street Railway, founded in 1874 by Robert Widney and F. P. F. Temple among others, and which is pulled by a single white horse. In front of the hotel are other horse-drawn vehicles and persons standing on both sides of the building. Varela moved to San Jose and worked as a photographer there in 1880, but evidently sold his negatives to Taber before returning to Washington, D. C., where he worked in the federal government system. With slight mount curvature, some soiling and edge rubbing, the overall condition is good.Lexicon
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