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[The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City, N.J.] – Historic Print

[The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City, N.J.], [1905?] — historic photograph
[The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City, N.J.], [1905?]. Historic photograph from the Atlantic City 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City, N.J.]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City, N.J.]

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The Boardwalk at Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the setting here, shown in a crowded parade scene that a photographer caught on a large glass dry plate negative, roughly 8 by 10 inches. The Detroit Publishing Company, which ran a major commercial photography and color printing business in the early twentieth century, made and catalogued the image, and its numbering appears on the negative. By the 1900s the Boardwalk, first built in 1870 as a way to keep sand out of hotel lobbies, had become one of the country's best-known seaside promenades, lined with hotels, piers and shops. Crowds like the one pictured were a defining feature of that resort life.

Created / published[1905?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. G 2713" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033906. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCrowds. Commercial facilities. Boardwalks.United States--New Jersey--Atlantic City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67060

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