Bass Rocks Golf Club house, Gloucester, Mass. – Vintage Wall Art
![Bass Rocks Golf Club house, Gloucester, Mass., c[between 1910 and 1915] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/ab64ad07699b-L.webp)
(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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Bass Rocks Golf Club house, Gloucester, Mass. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bass Rocks Golf Club house, Gloucester, Mass.
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The clubhouse of the Bass Rocks Golf Club, on the Atlantic shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is captured here with a parked automobile whose license plate reads 1910, which helps place the picture in the early 1910s. Bass Rocks was a seaside district where summer residents and visitors gathered, and golf was a popular pastime among the well-to-do along the North Shore at the time. The photographer worked for the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large-format glass negatives of towns, resorts and landscapes across the country for promotion and sale. The clubhouse and the car together show how leisure travel and automobiles were reshaping coastal recreation in New England.
| Created / published | c[between 1910 and 1915] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | No. 27" on negative. "1910" on car's license plate. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072108. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Clubhouses. Golf. Clubs.United States--Massachusetts--Gloucester. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 800 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-73223 |
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