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Steeplechase Pier and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J. – Vintage Wall Art

Steeplechase Pier and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J., c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Steeplechase Pier and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J., c[between 1910 and 1920]. 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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A window into the past: Steeplechase Pier and Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J., preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Steeplechase Pier, one of the amusement piers jutting into the Atlantic at Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the subject here, shown alongside the boardwalk that ran along the beach. Atlantic City had built the first boardwalk in the country in 1870, and by the 1910s its piers drew day-trippers and vacationers arriving by rail from Philadelphia and New York. The Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns and resorts for travel promotion in this period, made this glass negative between about 1910 and 1920. It offers a record of how the resort's seaside entertainment looked just before the boom years that followed.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 072996. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsAmusement piers. Boardwalks.United States--New Jersey--Atlantic City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 779 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73932

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