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Casino - Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island – Vintage Print

Casino - Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, 1909 — historic photograph
Casino - Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, 1909. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Casino - Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island

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The Casino at Narragansett Pier was the social center of a fashionable summer colony on the Rhode Island shore, where vacationing families gathered for concerts, dances, and tennis. During the Gilded Age, wealthy visitors from Providence, New York, and Boston came to the town, and its clubhouse reflected that leisured world. This 1909 view shows the building as a place of arrival and promenade near the water. It is a useful record of how seaside resort architecture and summer leisure were presented in the early twentieth century.

Created / published1909
Medium1 photographic print.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,200 × 2,879 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157560

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