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Bathing hour, Atlantic City, N.J. – Vintage Print

Bathing hour, Atlantic City, N.J., c1908. — historic photograph
Bathing hour, Atlantic City, N.J., c1908.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bathing hour, Atlantic City, N.J.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bathing hour, Atlantic City, N.J.

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Few things mark this view as a particular moment, but its title, "Bathing hour," points to the daily window when the Atlantic City beach filled with swimmers in the early 1900s. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 by 10 inch glass negative around 1908, sold views of American resorts, rail destinations, and scenic sites to travelers and railroads. Atlantic City, reached by rail from Philadelphia and New York, was one of the country's busiest seaside resorts at the time, and its beaches drew crowds in the heavy wool bathing costumes of the period. The negative later passed to the State Historical Society of Colorado before reaching the Library of Congress.

Created / publishedc1908.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 5250" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 071052. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBeaches.United States--New Jersey--Atlantic City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72445

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