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[[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room Los-Angeles-Postcard-Front-1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, postcard front, circa 1909, published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. The hand-lettered caption on the photo that was the basis for this coloured card reads "Copper Kettle Inn," but that is an error, because all advertising ephemera and references to the establishment in contemporary newspapers and magazines identify it as the Copper Kettle Tea Room. The Copper Kettle opened in 1908 under the proprietorship of two sisters, Smith college alumna Harriet Morris (1880 - 1961) and Barnard College alumna Mildred Morris, helped by their friend Beatrice Wigmore. In addition to tea and light lunches, The Copper Kettle sold Japanese and Chinese basketry and gift wares; by 1915 they were also marketing confections or candies that were sold along the Southern Pacific Railroad route. The building that housed The Copper Kettle -- and, in fact, every shop on both sides of the street, and the entirety of Mercantile Place itself -- was demolished in 1923 as part of a large urban high-rise building program.]] | [[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room Los-Angeles-Postcard-Front-1.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, postcard front, circa 1909, published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. The hand-lettered caption on the photo that was the basis for this coloured card reads "Copper Kettle Inn," but that is an error, because all advertising ephemera and references to the establishment in contemporary newspapers and magazines identify it as the Copper Kettle Tea Room. The Copper Kettle opened in 1908 under the proprietorship of two sisters, Smith college alumna Harriet Morris (1880 - 1961) and Barnard College alumna Mildred Morris, helped by their friend Beatrice Wigmore. In addition to tea and light lunches, The Copper Kettle sold Japanese and Chinese basketry and gift wares; by 1915 they were also marketing confections or candies that were sold along the Southern Pacific Railroad route. The building that housed The Copper Kettle -- and, in fact, every shop on both sides of the street, and the entirety of Mercantile Place itself -- was demolished in 1923 as part of a large urban high-rise building program.]] | ||
[[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room-Los-Angeles-1909-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, postcard back, published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. circa 1909.]] | [[File:Copper-Kettle-Tea-Room-Los-Angeles-1909-Postcard-Back.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Copper Kettle Tea Room, 23 Mercantile Place, Los Angeles, California, postcard back, published by the Benham Indian Trading Co. circa 1909.]] |
Revision as of 23:51, 19 September 2020
California Tea Room Postcard Gallery.
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catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room