Coney Island, N.Y.: Brighton Beach Hotel – Historic Print
(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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Coney Island, N.Y.: Brighton Beach Hotel
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The Brighton Beach Hotel was a resort hotel on the Brooklyn shore next to Coney Island, drawing visitors who wanted seaside air and a quieter stay than the amusement district offered. This c1904 print, copyrighted by the photographer A. Loeffler of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, records the hotel and its beachfront during the years when the area was a major summer destination for New Yorkers. The caption card, which the library notes is unverified, also lists bathing beaches, hotels and geography as subjects, a reminder of how the resort life along this coast was documented in the early 1900s.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo copyrighted by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y. No. 787. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bathing beaches; Hotels; Geogr. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,160 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140814 |
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