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[Hotel Lafayette, Cape May, New Jersey] – Historic Reproduction

[Hotel Lafayette, Cape May, New Jersey] — historic photograph
[Hotel Lafayette, Cape May, New Jersey]. Historic photograph from the Taverns & Saloons 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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[Hotel Lafayette, Cape May, New Jersey] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Hotel Lafayette, Cape May, New Jersey]

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The Hotel Lafayette is the subject here, a Cape May, New Jersey, building in a town that became a fashionable seaside resort after the 1860s, when rail service from Philadelphia made the shore easier to reach. Grand hotels like this one drew summer visitors who came for the ocean air, the wide porches, and long stays. The record gives no date, so the photograph's exact year is unknown, but it belongs to the Wittemann Collection, which is worth noting for anyone tracing where the image came from. The print shows how a resort hotel presented itself to the public.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsWittemann Collection (no. 2471). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NJ--C- M-; Hotels--NJ; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137430

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