And THIS is a whole era! This is Fred Hotlaing of the Hotlaing liquor family in San Francisco. They had a great deal of money; they owned all the lovely buildings. They were the "elegants" of the nineties, he and his brother. His brother was an amateur actor. Isn't this the epitome of the last of the "elegants?" (Roger Sturtevant, interview with Joyce Minick, transcribed in catalog sheets).