Hotel Metropole, Catalina, Cal. Los Angeles: California Art Foto Co., circa 1890s. Title and imprint to mount recto.  

A grand resort hotel on the Avalon shoreline on Santa Catalina Island first constructed by real estate developer George Shatto. It would later be destroyed by a fire that ravaged much of Avalon. A more modest replacement was constructed several years later. 

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