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| Title | Quaker Square - Hilton |
| Date | n.d. |
| Description | A postcard showing the Quaker Square Hilton Hotel in downtown Akron, Ohio. Architects Ted Curtis and Harold Rasmussen turned the silos of the Quaker Oats Company into a hotel with 260 circular rooms. The renovation was funded by private investors, including John Travolta, Flip Wilson, Gregory Peck, and Karl Malden. |
| Subject | Postcards
Quaker Oats Company
Quaker Square
Hotels
Mill Street
Downtown Akron
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| Publisher | Wilbur Evans Co. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| Contributors | On Loan to the Akron-Summit County Public Library
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| Type | Image
Text
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| Format | 5.5 in. x 3.5 in. |
| Source | RC_Quaker4.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Ruth Wright Clinefelter Postcard Collection
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
| Additional Information | http://www.quakersquare.com/quakerhistory.htm |
| Transcript | Back of postcard reads: AKRON, OHIO. The Quaker Square Hilton offers rooms "in the round" built in the silos once used to store grain for the Quaker Oats Company. |
