Arrowhead Springs Hotel, 1915, by JW Bledsoe. The “arrowhead” landslide for which the region is named is easily visible on the upper left side of the image. This is Arrowhead Springs Hotel #3, it was destroyed by wildfire in 1938 and replaced in 1939 (the 1939 version survives to the present, but is abandoned).
More information on the Hotel is here: https://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/about/history/arrowhead_springs_hotels.asp
And here: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/hotels-arrowhead-112008
Image courtesy Jim Smart at CSUSB, from an 8×10 negative.
Bledsoe’s panoramic photo of the Great White Fleet, May 7, 1908 is in the holdings of the Library of Congress. It shows a panoramic view of San Francisco from Twin Peaks. The Presidio and Golden Gate (sans bridge) occupy the left background of the image. Golden Gate Park with its conservatory and the panhandle occupy the center left. Center foreground shows a water tank I used to walk by on my way to work at UCSF. Market street can be discerned to center right, angling toward Yerba Buena Island (again, sans bridge). Treasure Island has not yet been built. The reconstruction after the 1906 earthquake is evident, and Teddy Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” is visible in the Bay to the right.
Dated May 7, 1908
Photograph by J. W. Bledsoe.
In the holdings of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007660691/
Photograph of the same location, taken by Richard Delwiche 99 years later.
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