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[Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y.] – Vintage Print

[Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1905] — historic photograph
[Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 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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[Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, Long Island, N.Y.]

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The Long Beach Hotel stood on the barrier beach of Long Island's south shore, in a town that had grown from a rail-served summer resort into a destination for city visitors arriving from Brooklyn and Manhattan. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for its large-scale photographic survey of American scenery, towns and tourist sites in the years around 1900. Its era was a period when railroads and steamships were pulling vacationers to the seaside, and hotels like this one were the centerpieces of that trade. The negative's catalog number and the Library of Congress's collection record show how these views were preserved and kept in circulation.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1905]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30844. Title from jacket. G 1257" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 062050. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsHotels. Resorts.United States--New York (State)--Long Island.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 803 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-70800

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