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- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
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Murphy's Hotel: 1905
Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Broad Street -- Murphy's Hotel." Last seen here. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Island in the Stream
The Gothic granite structure is Old City Hall, which has not changed, unlike nearly everything else around it in this view.
Murphy's Hotel
Apparently the Murphy Hotel buildings seen here were connected by a skywalk. Those buildings were torn down in 1912 and replaced with a new Murphy's Hotel, which was demolished in 2007.
Col. John Murphy
Started as an oyster shack
Here's a page that discusses the history of the hotel. It was opened by an Irish immigrant and CSA vet who added rooms above his oyster shack in the 1870s.
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Below is the same view from April of 2011.
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