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[Sea shore, first lessons] – Vintage Print

[Sea shore, first lessons], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Sea shore, first lessons], [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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Nantasket Beach, on the Massachusetts coast south of Boston, is the setting here, and the title, "Sea shore, first lessons," suggests a scene of children and adults learning to swim in the surf. The catalog places it at Nantasket by comparison with negatives of similar numbers, so the location is a reasonable inference rather than something written on the plate itself. In the early 1900s Nantasket was a busy seaside resort, reached by steamboat and railway from Boston, and crowds of day-trippers came for bathing and boardwalk amusements. The image is an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American places and everyday life around the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Locale based on negatives with similar numbers. 2828" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034118. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBeaches. Swimming. Children & adults.United States--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67220

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