On the beach Coney Island – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of On the beach Coney Island. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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On the beach Coney Island
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Coney Island's crowded shoreline in 1906 is the setting for this stereograph, a paired image meant to be viewed through a stereoscope so that the beach seems to open up in three dimensions. The card was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, which is noted on its record, and it came into the Library of Congress through the collection of Marian S. Carson. By the early 1900s Coney Island, on the southern edge of Brooklyn, had become a major seaside resort, drawing large crowds to its bathing beaches, and swimming there was turning into a popular mass pastime. The card preserves that moment of shared leisure on the sand.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H71867 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 204. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Coney Island (New York N.Y.)--1900-1910. Swimming--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. Beaches--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,254 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-270061 |
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