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  • Collection: Old Hotel West

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Handwritten on the back of the 1st copy:

2002-2b. 9-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Old Hotel
East Side

Handwritten on the back of the 2nd copy:

2002-2b. 10-1

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Handwritten on the back of the 1st copy:

2002-2b.1-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Old Hotel
Main Street Before Demolition
East view side seen from Main Street

Handwritten on the back of the 2nd copy:
2002-2b.2-1

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Handwritten on the back of the 1st copy:

2002-2b. 3-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Old Hotel
North Side

Handwritten on the back of the 2nd copy:

2002-2b. 4-1

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Handwritten on the back of the 1st copy:

2002-2b.7-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Old Hotel
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Handwritten on the back of the 2nd copy:

2002-2b.8-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Old Hotel
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Handwritten on the back of the 1st copy:

2002-2b.5-1
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Old Hotel
West Side

Handwritten on the back of the 2nd copy:

2002-2b.6-1

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After the first Uncle Tom's Cabin burned down in 1879, new residential housing, West's Hotel, was built in 1880 on the same site at the northwest corner of Main St. and the Railroad Tracks.

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"Hotel West. Twenty-seven years of continuous service for Sugar Grove. The following is printed from a Catalogue of Sugar Grove School 1895: 'Wm. West, our able hotel man, the owner and proprietor of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' furnishes table board from…

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Printed on the front:HOTEL WEST SUGAR GROVE ILL

Stamped on the back:

W. W. VAN OSDEL. PHOTOGRAPHER
AURORA, ILL

The ornate building that served as the boarding house for student scholars called Uncle Tom's Cabin was destroyed by fire in…
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