[The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach front] – Historic Reproduction
![[The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach front], 1888 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6f/6f950ea20ebe-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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Step back in time with [The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach front], a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[The Brighton Beach Hotel, Brooklyn, N.Y., being moved away from beach front]
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Few views capture a building in transit like this one. The panoramic print shows the Brighton Beach Hotel in Brooklyn being hauled away from the ocean front in 1888, with locomotives and railroad crews visible beside it. Brighton Beach was a fashionable seaside resort in the 1880s, served by rail lines that carried vacationers from the city, so the presence of engines in the scene points to the railroad's role in the operation. Moving a structure this large required heavy timber, jacks, and coordinated manpower, which makes the picture a record of late nineteenth-century engineering as much as of the resort itself.
| Created / published | 1888 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen ; 6 x 35.5 in. |
| Genre | Albumen prints.Panoramic photographs. |
| Notes | Title derived from P&P catalog card for corresponding copy negative. Source unknown.. |
| Subjects | Railroad locomotives. Hotels. Engineering. Railroad employees. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)United States--New York (State)--New York. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 685 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130126 |
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