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[Cape Cottage, casino and grounds, Maine] – Antique Wall Art

[Cape Cottage, casino and grounds, Maine], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Cape Cottage, casino and grounds, Maine], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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: [Cape Cottage, casino and grounds, Maine], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Cape Cottage, casino and grounds, Maine]

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Cape Cottage, a seaside summer colony on the rocky coast of Cape Elizabeth just south of Portland, Maine, is the setting for this view of its casino and grounds. Resort casinos of the early 1900s were usually social clubhouses rather than gambling halls, where vacationing families gathered for dances, concerts, and meals. The Detroit Publishing Company, active from the 1890s into the 1920s, sent photographers to document such resorts and sold the views as prints and postcards. Because the image was made on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate, it holds far more fine detail than the smaller plates many photographers used at the time.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 2399 B" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033557. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCasinos.United States--Maine--Cape Elizabeth.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66784

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