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Dreamland at twilight, Coney Island, N.Y. – Antique Wall Art

Dreamland at twilight, Coney Island, N.Y., c1905. — historic photograph
Dreamland at twilight, Coney Island, N.Y., c1905.. Historic photograph from the Coney Island 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: Dreamland at twilight, Coney Island, N.Y., 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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Dreamland at twilight, Coney Island, N.Y.

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Dreamland, the electrically lit amusement park at Coney Island, is the subject here, caught at the hour when its towers and lamps would have begun to stand out against the fading sky. The park opened in 1904 under developer William H. Reynolds, who built it as a rival to the older attractions along the Brooklyn shore and promoted it as a fairyland of illumination. Around 1905, when this glass negative was made, the electric lighting was still a novelty that drew crowds after dark. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for its views of resorts, cities and scenery across the country, produced many such commercial images, and this one preserves how the park looked in its first years, before a fire destroyed much of it in 1911.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
Notes463" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30289. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018315. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsAmusement parks. Sunrises & sunsets. Electric lighting.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-61846

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