Washington DC 1910 Hotel Driscoll Guest Receipt Billhead 5.5 x 8

This 1910 billhead documents a guest’s stay at Washington, D.C.’s Hotel Driscoll during the capital’s early twentieth-century expansion as a commercial and governmental hub.

Urban hotels in this period functioned as both lodging and business centers, serving traveling salesmen, federal employees, and visitors drawn by the city’s growing bureaucratic and political importance. Printed hotel receipts provide a window into everyday travel costs and service categories before standardized national pricing and modern hotel chains reshaped the industry.

The form lists room and board charges alongside itemized expenses such as phone calls and laundry, with handwritten calculations and signatures reflecting real-time accounting practices of the era. The printed hotel header and structured columns illustrate the transition from informal ledger keeping to standardized business documentation used by urban hotels.

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