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[Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N.J.] – Vintage Print

[Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N.J.], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N.J.], [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: [Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N.J.], 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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[Steel Pier, Atlantic City, N.J.]

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Steel Pier stretched out over the Atlantic from the boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and this glass negative shows it as one of the resort's busiest amusement piers in the 1910s. The pier opened in 1898 and grew into a mix of promenade, concert hall, and attractions that drew summer crowds from Philadelphia and New York. The image comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American resorts, rail lines, and scenic places for commercial sale in the early twentieth century. Its large 8 by 10 inch format gives unusually fine detail in the boardwalk, railings, and the crowd moving along the pier.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 9146" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500753. 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 × 798 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75004

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