~ "St. Charles Hotel. " N. Orlean., La.
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The St. Charles Hotel was a hotel on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the first of the great hotels of the United States, the original Grecian palace-style building, opened in 1837 and originally designed by James Dakin and James Gallier, has been described by author Richard Campanella as "one of the most splendid structures in the nation and a landmark of the New Orleans skyline". It was some time before it found a rival in the Astor House, of New York City. It was said that the hotel's Parlor P had probably witnessed more important political events than any room or any building in the country, outside of the Capitol at Washington, D.C. During the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler seized the hotel to use for his headquarters after the city surrendered. The third incarnation of the hotel was finally demolished in 1974. 

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Theodore Lilienthal  
Part of the first generation of photographers in New Orleans, Theodore Lilienthal was city’s most successful nineteenth-century photographic entrepreneur. At the height of his commercial success, from 1875 to 1885, he operated one of the largest studios in the South, and was recognized as a pioneer of new photographic processes. His work as a portraitist and view maker was unsurpassed in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and his most important work, a portfolio of views of New Orleans executed for the Paris Exposition of 1867, remains one of the supreme achievements of nineteenth century urban photography in America. 
He was probably the first local photographer to invest in a darkroom wagon, which he began operating out of his Poydras Street studio in 1865. The traveling darkroom gave him access to the large market in outdoor views, and from the late 1860s to the end of his career he was among the largest publishers of stereoviews of New Orleans. A federal commission in late 1865 to photograph military facilities in the city, and a prize-winning exhibition at the 1866 Mechanics and Agricultural Fair, established his reputation locally as an urban photographer.
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  1..."EARLY SODAS OF THE CAROLINAS"
By David Rakes
Much needed History of the Bottlers & Bottles of South Carolinas, Sodas, Mineral Waters,  Photos of all North & South Carolinas bottles know, and 146 pages of the History.

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Auction was held by GWA in three seperate months,  9/15, 2005, 11/15, 2005  and 1/16, & 2006
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