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photo details |
inscriptions |
identification & refs |
content |
| 60 |
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17/11 |
'4119 Hotel del Coronado - White and Gold Drawing Room - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.' |
obv: 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp] |
San Diego, California: Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, by Reid & Reid (mainly James W Reid), 1887-8 [Smith (3), pp 148-9] Credited with introducing the steel frame to the West Coast [Barrett, ref Architect and Engineer of California, November 1910, p 37] |
Drawing room with white joinery and furniture. |
| 61 |
 |
18/11 |
'4183 Reading and Chess Rooms, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.' |
obv: 'America'rev: - |
Hotel del Coronado |
View from one room to the next through a rectangular opening, both with panelled dados and coffered ceilings |
| 62 |
 |
19/11 |
'4192 Bar-room, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.' |
obv: 'No 3' 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp] |
Hotel del Coronado |
Bar with a projecting polygonal corner, and a sort of baldacchino. |
| 63 |
 |
20/11 |
'4106 Hotel del Coronado - Office - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.' |
obv: 'America' rev: - |
Hotel del Coronado |
Double height room with lounge seating, upper balcony, counter at rear - presumably reception area. |
| 64 |
 |
21/11 |
'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.' |
obv: 'America' rev: - |
Hotel del Coronado |
External view with complex massing, about 6 storeys high, giant conical corner pavilion. |
| 65 |
 |
22/11 |
'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Bridal Chamber - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., [cropped]' |
obv: 'America' rev: - |
Hotel del Coronado |
Insipid interior with triple arcade across. |
| 66 |
 |
23/11 |
'1757' |
obv: 'America' rev: 'Ravenswood Ill / J. C. Cochran Arch' |
Ravenswood, Illinois: All Saints Episcopal Church, 4550 N Hermitage Ave, by JC Cochran, 1883 [ref Payne, Sinkevitch, p 223] |
Church interior with a Mayan arch section, ornamental frieze and pseudo-hammer beams below. |
| 67 |
 |
24/11 |
'2314' |
obv: 'America' rev: - |
? |
Interior of what looks like a legislative chamber, with deep coved and panelled ceiling, rich plaster ornament, raked upper gallery, two concentric semicircles of desks & seats. |
| 68 |
 |
1/13 |
'1694' [twice] |
obv: 'America' rev: - |
? |
Three storey brick row with shop windows at ground floor, canted oriel bays with domes, decorative banked chimneys on façade, central plate reading ';...WN', and 'Dr. Shaw' on one window. |
| 69 |
 |
2/13 |
? '1486' |
obv: 'Ohio' rev: 'Ohio / Churly[?] + Clay' |
Chicago: Kinsley Building, see no 27 |
Four storey building with stilted arches and intricate Islamic relief decoration. Adjoining building is G. Jochem's Post Office Exchange |
| 70 |
 |
3/13 |
embossed: 'Bedford Lewers & Co / 141, Strand, London' |
obv: 'America' rev: - |
London |
Three storey medievalising building with mainly Gothic arches and a central tower. friezes at gable height seem to show occupations, suggesting that this is an educational building |
| 71 |
 |
4/13 |
- |
obv: 'Milwaukee' rev: - |
Milwaukee: Michaud Block, 1885 |
Three storey block with central entrance and flanking shops at ground floor, elegant sub-Romanesque detailing, labels '1885', 'Michaud Block' |
| 72 |
 |
5/13 |
'2279' |
obv: 'Omaha' rev: 'Omaha Nev, [sic] / By Mendelsohne + Fisher' |
Omaha, Nebraska OR Kansas City, Missouri |
Four storey block in rock-faced sub-Romanesque. Adjoining property is '... Notion Company. 405' |
| 73 |
 |
6/13 |
'2279' |
obv: 'Kansas City USA' rev: 'Kansas City - / Ohio' |
Omaha, Nebraska OR Kansas City, Missouri |
Same picture as previous, slightly different cropping. |
| 74 |
 |
7/13 |
'51' |
obv: 'Kansas City USA' [sic]rev: 'Kansas City' |
Chicago: Borden Block, West Randolph & Dearborn Sts, by Adler & Sullivan, 1879-80, demolished 1910 [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 22, 46] |
7 storey building, labelled 'Borden Block'. |
| 75 |
 |
8/13 |
'5053 / J.W. Taylor, Chi' |
obv: 'Baltimore' rev: 'Baltimore' |
Baltimore: Hutzler Brothers building |
5 storey Byzantine-Romanesque building, with a Moresque central arch, labelled 'Hutzler Brothers'. |
| 76 |
 |
9/13 |
'1450' |
obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'Hodgson St[...] / St Paul / Minn' |
Chicago: Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, by W L B Jenney 1892, dem 1931. Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 237-263 |
Home Insurance building. |
| 77 |
 |
10/13 |
'1869' |
obv: 'Minneapolis USA' rev: 'Minneapolis / Buffington' |
Minneapolis: Boston block, by Buffington, 1881-6. |
6 storey plus mansard corner block with pyramidal pavilion roofs at corners, labelled '1881' and 'Boston Block', apparently not quite complete, and with 'Buffington / Architect' across three windows. |
| 78 |
 |
11/13 |
- |
obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'St Paul / Flanders Ar' |
St Paul, by Flanders [could be John J Flanders, but that he doesn't seem to have been in private practice prior to Kilburn's visit]. |
modest 3 st block with a ground floor shop and at the top floor a shingle-hung cantilevered window bay. |
| 79 |
 |
12/13 |
'1873' |
obv: 'Lumber exchange Minn.' rev: 'Minneapolis / Minn / Long + Kees' |
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lumber Exchange, by Long & Kees |
10 st rock-faced block, labelled 'Lumber Exchange'. |