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[Balmer's bathing beach, Coney Island, N.Y.] – Historic Reproduction

[Balmer's bathing beach, Coney Island, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Balmer's bathing beach, Coney Island, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Coney Island 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: [Balmer's bathing beach, Coney Island, N.Y.], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Balmer's bathing beach, Coney Island, N.Y.]

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Balmer's bathing beach was one of the privately run bathing grounds along the Coney Island shore in the years around 1900, when the Brooklyn resort drew large crowds from New York City on summer weekends. Bathhouses like this one provided dressing rooms and lockers, so visitors who had arrived by trolley or elevated train could change into swimwear and head to the sand and surf. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers made commercial views of American resorts, towns and scenery, and it preserves the beach crowds and bathhouse architecture of that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033275. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsBeaches. Bathhouses.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66568

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