MOUNT LOWE TAVERN. On Lines of Pacific Electric Railway. Mount Lowe, California.

Item Details

Los Angeles?, (n. p.), Ca early 20th C.

Single sheet, 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Verso blank. Unusued. Illustrated with 4 b/w half-tone images: the Tavern [captioned "Altitude 4420 Feet"] and 3 summit scenes ["The Cottages", "Inspiration Point" & "Incline Railway"]. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Hint of age-toning. Lacking tip of upper right corner. A VG - VG+ copy of this rare survivor.

"Ye Alpine Tavern (as it was first named), the fourth and last hotel built by Professor Lowe, welcomed over three million visitors in its forty-one years of operation. Opened in 1895, the resort was destroyed by fire in 1936." [Mt Lowe digital history site].

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