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[Congress Hall, Cape May, N.J.] – Antique Print

[Congress Hall, Cape May, N.J.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Congress Hall, Cape May, N.J.], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Congress Hall, Cape May, N.J.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Congress Hall, the large wood-framed resort hotel on Cape May's oceanfront, is the subject of this 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative, one of the Detroit Publishing Company's views of American resorts made around the turn of the twentieth century. Cape May had been a fashionable seaside destination since the early 1800s, drawing summer visitors from Philadelphia and beyond who came for the beach, the sea air and the grand hotels that lined the shore. Congress Hall, dating in its earliest form to 1816, was among the best known of these establishments, and the company's photographers recorded such buildings to sell as postcards and souvenir views.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 33" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039185. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels.United States--New Jersey--Cape May.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68868

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