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[S.W. view, Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Fla.] – Historic Print

[S.W. view, Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[S.W. view, Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Fla.], [between 1900 and 1915]. 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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A window into the past: [S.W. view, Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Fla.], 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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[S.W. view, Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach, Fla.]

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Flagler's Royal Poinciana Hotel, shown here from the southwest, was one of the largest wooden hotels in the world when it opened on the shore of Lake Worth in 1894. Its long verandas and rows of wheeled chairs, which the record lists as a subject, reflect the leisure life that drew wealthy winter visitors to Palm Beach in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass-plate negative sometime between 1900 and 1915, specialized in views like this of resorts, towns and landscapes across the country. The hotel was demolished in 1935, so this view is now one of the clearer records of how the resort looked at its height.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 7650" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 500140. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsResorts. Hotels. Wheeled chairs.United States--Florida--Palm Beach.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74556

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