Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2013.010.064 |
Object Name |
Print, photographic |
Date |
1978 |
Description |
Color photograph measuring 4.5" x 3.5" and depicting an inscription on a cement slab on the foundation of the Hotel Brady, located at 24 North Main Street in Tulsa, OK. The inscription reads, "At a point in Irving Place, 5686 feet from this corner, N. 84 O' W. overlooking the site of the present city of Tulsa, on Oct. 13, 1932, Washington Irving uttered this prophecy: "This seems to me to be the promised land flowing with milk and honey. On the rich herbage of the prairies will be fed herds of cattle as innumerable as the sands upon the sea shore, and the flowers that bedeck the prairies will be a paradise for a nectar-loving being"." During the 1978 demolition of the Hotel Brady, workers found this cement slab in a tunnel that once connected the original, three-story portion of the hotel constructed in 1904 with the later, eight-story addition completed in 1909. |
Search Terms |
Hotel Brady plaques |
People |
Irving, Washington |
Place |
Tulsa, OK |