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On the beach at Ross' pavilion, Ocean Grove, N.J. – Antique Wall Art

On the beach at Ross' pavilion, Ocean Grove, N.J., c1905. — historic photograph
On the beach at Ross' pavilion, Ocean Grove, N.J., c1905.. 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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A window into the past: On the beach at Ross' pavilion, Ocean Grove, N.J., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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On the beach at Ross' pavilion, Ocean Grove, N.J.

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Ross' pavilion stood on the sand at Ocean Grove, the Methodist camp-meeting resort on the New Jersey shore, and this 8 by 10 inch glass negative records a crowd gathered on the beach there around 1905. Ocean Grove was founded in 1869 as a religious retreat with strict rules on Sabbath conduct, so its seaside amusements were more restrained than those at neighboring resorts. The Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large numbers of American views for travel and sale around the turn of the century, made the negative. Its crowded beach scene offers a glimpse of how holiday visitors used the shore at that time.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes2686" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018709. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBeaches. Crowds.United States--New Jersey--Ocean Grove.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 786 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62209

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