[Liberty Hotel]

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Copy negative of the Liberty Hotel decorated for the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival in the late 1930s. Cars are parked on either side of the street, and a group of unidentified people ascend the stairs to the entrance.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.

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Cherokee County Historical Society September 17, 1988.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Cherokee County Historical Commission Photograph Collection and was provided by the Cherokee County Historical Commission to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 185 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Copy negative of the Liberty Hotel decorated for the Jacksonville National Tomato Festival in the late 1930s. Cars are parked on either side of the street, and a group of unidentified people ascend the stairs to the entrance.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 35 mm.

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"Liberty Hotel was town's main hotel for decades. Here it is decorated for one of the Jacksonville National Tomato Festivals in late 1930's. Hotel was built after fire destroyed the Pearl Hotel on same site in 1917 in one of the town's major fires. Name was chosen because Jacksonville people chased their World War I Liberty Bonds to form corporation to finance its construction. Liberty Hotel burned in 1960's. Spear House occupied site before the Pearl Hotel. Until Liberty Hotel burned, site had always been used by a hotel from time I. & G. N. Railroad built line into Jacksonville in 1872. Site today is occupied by Heath & Heath warehouse."

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Cherokee County Historical Commission Photograph Collection

Photographs depicting people, families, and businesses in Rusk, Jacksonville, and surrounding towns in Cherokee County.

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  • September 17, 1988

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Cherokee County Historical Society. [Liberty Hotel], photograph, September 17, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth354448/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cherokee County Historical Commission.

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