Long Beach, California – Vintage Print
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Long Beach, California, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Long Beach, California
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Long Beach, California, is the subject here, and this panoramic gelatin silver print stretches nearly six feet wide, a format that suited the long, flat line of the beachfront and its boardwalk. The Haines Photo Co. of Conneaut, Ohio, registered the image for copyright in May 1908, which is why the Library of Congress holds a deposit copy. Around that time Long Beach was growing into a seaside resort south of Los Angeles, with a pier and boardwalk drawing summer visitors by rail and streetcar. Panoramas like this one were popular souvenirs, and they still show how the shoreline was built up.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9.5 x 67.5 in. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | H107608 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; May 6, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43419. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. No. 1. |
| Subjects | Boardwalks.United States--California--Long Beach. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,689 × 588 px · prints to 12 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-206915 |
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