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Coney Island, N.Y.: Manhattan Beach Hotel – Historic Reproduction

Coney Island, N.Y.: Manhattan Beach Hotel, c1904. — historic photograph
Coney Island, N.Y.: Manhattan Beach Hotel, c1904.. 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: Coney Island, N.Y.: Manhattan Beach Hotel, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Coney Island, N.Y.: Manhattan Beach Hotel

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Manhattan Beach Hotel stood on the sandy strip just east of Coney Island, in Brooklyn, when the area was a fashionable seaside destination for New Yorkers. Austin Corbin, a railroad and real estate developer, built the resort in the late 1870s and linked it to the city by rail. The copyright notice credits A. Loeffler of Tompkinsville, N.Y., and the record dates the view to about 1904, though that date is unverified. The picture shows one of the grand summer hotels that drew crowds to the shore before amusement parks came to dominate the peninsula.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y. No. 786. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bathing beaches; Hotels; Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,173 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140815

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