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Sand modelling, Atlantic City, N.J. – Vintage Print

Sand modelling, Atlantic City, N.J., [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
Sand modelling, Atlantic City, N.J., [between 1900 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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Sand modelling, Atlantic City, N.J.

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Few pictures in this collection capture a seaside pastime as directly as this one: a sand sculpture at Atlantic City, New Jersey, whose maker has carved a line of scripture and a request into the sand beside the work. The inscription reads "Into Thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit" and asks viewers to "kindly remember the worker," and a second note identifies the piece as the winner of a sand modelling contest. Sand sculpture was a popular attraction on the Atlantic City beaches in the early twentieth century, when the resort drew large crowds of day visitors and vacationers. The glass-plate negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers sold postcard views of such scenes nationwide.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesInscription in sand: Into Thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit. Kindly remember the worker. Work which won the sand modelling contest. See them on the postal Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070274. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71860

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