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Charter House Hotel

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Description: View across road toward the Charter House Hotel. A driver is sitting in an early touring automobile in front, and other people are standing nearby.
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Hong Kong Harbor Scene

Date: 09 1951
Description: The large, ornamental office building of Thomas Cook and Sons on the waterfront in Hong Kong. The firm was one of the oldest and largest travel companies i...
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Modern Rooms — E.F. Lueth

Date: 1925
Description: View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi...
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Historic House Tourists

Date: 1945
Description: Visitors to the historic Charles A. Grignon House (built 1837-1839), probably during the 1940s. The visitors are seated on a corner of the front porch unde...
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Commercial Main Street

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Description: View down a commercial main street lined with trees and parked cars.
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Old Capitol at Williamsburg

Date: 1907
Description: View of the Old Capitol at Williamsburg during the Jamestown Exposition. Signs advertise, "Colonial Virginia, Accurately Reproduced, Smith's Adventures Wi...
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Main Building — Birchcliff Hotel

Date: 1927
Description: View across lawn of the main building, with a woman is standing at the entrance to the dining room of the Birchcliff Hotel.
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Main Building, The "Black Oaks at the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: View up drive towards the main building with wrap-around porch. A bicycle is parked at the bottom of the stairs. Guest cottages are behind the main buildin...
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Main Building, the "Black Oaks at the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: Three-quarter view of the main building. A woman us standing on the porch holding a broom, and a bicycle is parked at the bottom of the stairs. Tennis rack...
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Black Oaks Cottages at the Dells

Date: 1927
Description: Front entrance to the Black Oaks resort. A man is driving an automobile down the drive near two stone walls with columns framing the entrance to the drivew...
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Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1927
Description: Two-story building with a wrap-around porch and a balcony. Includes a number of guest rooms with separate entrances.
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Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1927
Description: View across road of a large cottage with a front porch on the right, with two people sitting in a lawn chair in front. Down the hill on the left behind tre...
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Scene at Dells Farm Resort

Date: 1930
Description: Dells Farm Resort with an elevated view of a multi-room cottage with an outhouse located under the balcony on the right. Two women sit around a table in th...
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Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms — 501 Broadway

Date: 1930
Description: Three-quarter view of Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms, which has a porch and a balcony. Signs in front advertise rooms, bath and garage for 75 cents per person, ...
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Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms — 501 Broadway

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of Fitzgerald's Modern Rooms, which is a private home with rooms for tourists, with a screened-in porch, and a balcony. Two children are stan...
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"The Maples" Broadway at Capitol Highway 29

Date: 1926
Description: Side view from sidewalk of "The Maples," a large brick house with arched windows and a columned porch.
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Ravenswood Hotel

Date: 1924
Description: Three-quarter view of the Ravenswood Hotel surrounded by pine trees. There is a screened porch and a balcony above. An automobile is parked on the side in ...
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Ravenswood Hotel Grounds

Date: 1927
Description: View down slope of hill towards the side of the Ravenswood Hotel among the pines. There is a porch and balcony along the side and front of the hotel, and h...
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Roods Glen Resort on Lucky 13

Date: 1930
Description: Three-quarter view of Glen Rood's Resort. A man, woman and child are near the lawn swing in the yard. Benches are on the open porch and in the yard. There...
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Cottages at Schofield Hotel

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Description: View across lawn and driveway of cottages at the Schofield Hotel. "Idleawyle" is on the left, and "Hummingbird" is on the right. Flowers are planted next t...

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