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The Houston Hotel and attached buildings
- Date Range
- 1921
- Collection
- Bill Dungate collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Houston Hotel, with proprietor C. Harvey Davies standing on the front porch.
- Collection
- Bill Dungate collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Fonds No.
- C8
- Item No.
- P9577
- Accession No.
- 2021.23
- Physical Description
- 1 negative; b&w
- 1 b&w print; 18.7 x 11.5 cm
- Scan Resolution
- 600 dpi
- Date Range
- 1921
- History / Biographical
- The main building of the hotel (far right) was built in 1911. The middle building was turned into a beer parlour in 1923. The building at the far left was used as an ice house.
- Custodial History
- Negative was taken by Bill Dungate of an old photograph lent to him for reproduction by Nancy Goold in October or November 1989. Donated to the Museum on August 12th 2021 by Dino Laramie. Print was donated to the Museum at some point prior to 2020, possibly by Dino Laramie, along with a large number of other Dungate prints and slides.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of the Houston Hotel, with proprietor C. Harvey Davies standing on the front porch.
- Geographic Access
- Houston, B.C.
- Notes
- Print version has captions reading "Harvey added to the Hotel a beer parlor [and] ice house." "Built 1911" (over the far right building). "Harvey Davies standing in front of old Hotel Houston 1921 which he bought Jan 1920."
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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