Shadows on beach Coney Island--colored girls bathing – Antique 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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Shadows on beach Coney Island--colored girls bathing comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Shadows on beach Coney Island--colored girls bathing
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Coney Island's bathing beach in 1896 is the setting for this stereograph, a paired-image card meant to be viewed through a hand stereoscope. The card's title points to the shadows cast across the sand, and its subject is a group of Black women and girls at the shore, a scene the record describes as social life among African Americans in New York. Stereo cards like this were mass-produced and sold widely in the 1890s, so they tell us as much about how urban leisure was pictured for middle-class parlors as about the beach itself. The card was registered for copyright, and the collector Marian S. Carson later preserved it.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | 6181B U.S. Copyright Office. No. 204. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Social life--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Beaches--New York (State)--New York--1890-1900. Coney Island (New York N.Y.)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268041 |
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