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Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla. – Antique Print

Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla., c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla., c[between 1910 and 1920]. 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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Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla.

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The Royal Poinciana Hotel stood on the shore of Lake Worth in Palm Beach, and at its peak it was one of the largest wooden resort hotels in the world, built by Henry Flagler in 1894 to draw wealthy winter visitors to Florida's east coast. This glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled the country around 1900 to 1920 making views of hotels, rail lines and scenic places that the company then sold as prints and postcards. The plate is cracked and was repaired by taping it to a second sheet of glass, a detail that hints at how fragile these large negatives were after decades of handling.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegative broken and taped to second sheet of glass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072436. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsHotels. Resorts.United States--Florida--Palm Beach.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73503

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