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[The Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey] – Antique Print

[The Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Atlantic City 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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[The Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Chalfonte, Atlantic City, New Jersey]

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Few resort scenes capture the Atlantic City boardwalk as clearly as this view of the Chalfonte, one of the large hotels that lined the oceanfront. The image shows the hotel's long boardwalk frontage along with the wheeled chairs, the rolling chairs pushed by attendants, that carried vacationers up and down the walk. Those chairs became a signature of the resort in the late nineteenth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which photographed American towns and resorts around 1900, made the glass negative, and the image records how leisure travel shaped the city's seafront in the years before World War I.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2673" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033895. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Boardwalks. Wheeled chairs.United States--New Jersey--Atlantic City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67050

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