IDNO

P.99650.ACH2

Description

The Tower Hotel, Georgetown. Album page 19.

View of the exterior of the Tower Hotel, Georgetwon, taken from the street where two horse-drawn carriages are being driven. The hotel is a four-storeyed wooden building with an octangular wooden tower on the front corner.
The print has been trimmed to a domed shape. [JD 1/5/2007]

Place

S America; Guyana; Georgetown

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

?Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

1880 - 1910

Collection Name

?Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.99643 to P.99673 are in A.173. The album was formerly kept in paper archive envelope WO6/1/12; Box 174. It has now been transferred to the photo archive.

Context: The Tower Hotel began to operate in 1846. [Source: Historic Stabroek, www.nationaltrust.gov.gy/historicstabroek.html, JD 1/5/2007]

Source: A stamp inside the album mentions it to be a Haddon gift.

This album has been catalogued with the support of the Getty Grant Fund. [S. Guha 17/11/2004]