On the beach, Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, Calif. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of On the beach, Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, Calif.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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On the beach, Avalon Bay, Catalina Island, Calif.
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Avalon Bay on Santa Catalina Island is the setting here, at a town that drew steamer passengers from Los Angeles as a seaside resort in the early 1900s. The picture is a stereograph card, a pair of nearly identical images meant to be viewed through a hand viewer so the scene appeared to have depth. The H.C. White Co. of North Bennington, Vermont, produced many such cards, which households bought as a form of armchair travel. Beach scenes like this one show how visitors spent their leisure by the water during that era.
| Created / published | N. Bennington, Vt. : H.C. White Co., c1906. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver. |
| Subjects | Photography--California--Santa Catalina Island--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,510 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-132512 |
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