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[Wildwood, N.J., Hotel Seaside] – Historic Reproduction

[Wildwood, N.J., Hotel Seaside], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Wildwood, N.J., Hotel Seaside], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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 [Wildwood, N.J., Hotel Seaside] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Wildwood, N.J., Hotel Seaside]

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Few resort hotels on the New Jersey shore have a clearer corner view than this one: the street signs for Atlantic and Oak Avenues are legible on the building itself, pinning the Hotel Seaside to a specific intersection in Wildwood. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative sometime between 1900 and 1910, traveled widely to document American towns, resorts and scenery for commercial postcards and booklets. Wildwood grew quickly as a seaside destination in those years, drawing vacationers by rail to its beaches and boardwalk, so a hotel like this one captures the period when the town was building its tourism economy.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Street signs on corner of building: Atlantic and Oak Avenue. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039182. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotel Seaside (Wildwood, N.J.) Hotels.United States--New Jersey--Wildwood.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 777 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68865

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