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Tennis courts of the Kittatinny [House], Delaware Water Gap, Pa. – Vintage Wall Art

Tennis courts of the Kittatinny [House], Delaware Water Gap, Pa., [1905?] — historic photograph
Tennis courts of the Kittatinny [House], Delaware Water Gap, Pa., [1905?]. 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: Tennis courts of the Kittatinny [House], Delaware Water Gap, Pa., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The tennis courts at the Kittatinny House in the Delaware Water Gap of northeastern Pennsylvania show a leisure activity that resort hotels were adding to their grounds around the turn of the twentieth century. The Water Gap drew summer guests by rail from New York and Philadelphia, and hotels like the Kittatinny offered sports and social diversions alongside the mountain scenery. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative, sold views of such resorts as travel souvenirs, so the picture doubles as a record of how well-to-do vacationers spent their days.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). 591" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018722. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Tennis. Resorts.United States--Pennsylvania--Delaware Water Gap.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62220

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