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[Cottages along water front, Prospect Point, Shelter Island, N.Y.] – Antique Print

[Cottages along water front, Prospect Point, Shelter Island, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Cottages along water front, Prospect Point, Shelter Island, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Cottages along water front, Prospect Point, Shelter Island, N.Y.]

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Shelter Island, a small island between the forks of eastern Long Island, is the setting here, and the view looks out over a row of cottages along the shore at Prospect Point. Around 1900 to 1910, many such waterfront houses served as summer homes for families from New York City and other towns, and the Detroit Publishing Company sold views like this one as postcards and travel prints. The image survives as an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative, which gives it a sharp, detailed record of the buildings and their shoreline setting.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 426" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034739. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDwellings.United States--New York (State)--Shelter Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67549

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