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[The Bathing beach, Magnolia, Mass.] – Vintage Print

[The Bathing beach, Magnolia, Mass.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[The Bathing beach, Magnolia, Mass.], [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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A window into the past: [The Bathing beach, Magnolia, Mass.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[The Bathing beach, Magnolia, Mass.]

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Magnolia, a summer resort village within Gloucester on Cape Ann, is the setting here, with a bathing beach, rowboats drawn up or floating offshore, and large houses on a bluff in the distance. By the turn of the twentieth century, Magnolia had become a popular retreat for visitors from Boston and other nearby cities, who came for the sea air and the shore. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that photographed scenic places across the United States around 1900 and printed them as postcards and views. This example survives as an 8 x 10 inch glass dry plate negative, a format that gave sharp detail for enlargement and printing.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Mansions on bluff in distance. 1589" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033278. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBeaches. Rowboats.United States--Massachusetts--Gloucester.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66571

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