[New York - Oyster Bay, Long Island Yacht Club: group of men and women ashore] – Historic Print
![[New York - Oyster Bay, Long Island Yacht Club: group of men and women ashore], [1905] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3a/3aa8365fdcf3-L.webp)
(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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Oyster Bay, on Long Island's North Shore, was a popular summer retreat for well-to-do New York families around 1905, and its yacht club drew sailors and their companions into a busy social life. This group of men and women posed ashore captures the leisure culture of that era, when dress and bearing signaled social standing as clearly as any boat did. The photograph is credited to Frances Benjamin Johnston, a pioneering American photographer known for her portraits and documentary work. The date and caption come from an old catalog card and have not been independently verified, so treat those details as a starting point for further research.
| Created / published | [1905] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,246 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125212 |
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