PC-001-377

One of the famous murals depicting the conquest of the desert in the lobby of the Barbara Worth Hotel, El Centro, California

 

 

 

 

The Hotel Barbara Worth opened in 1915, the namesake of a fictional character created by Harold Bell Wright, whose The Winning of Barbara Worth was a best-seller. Wright, who lived near El Centro at the time, posed with one of the four murals on the lobby walls (one shown here above the central door) by Edouard Vysekal and Luvena Buchanan, which were destroyed when the hotel burned in 1962. Local citizens were used as models for the murals. In the back dividing line is the phrase "an Allied Properties Hotel." Allied Properties might be the publisher, but there is no other attribution.

Hotel Barbara Worth; Lobbies; Murals; Hotels; Barbara Worth hotel

 

California - El Centro

 

 

MS-0008

 

 

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

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PC-001-375

 

 

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TIFF

21.92 MB