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Bathing in front of the big hotels, Atlantic City, N.J. – Vintage Wall Art

Bathing in front of the big hotels, Atlantic City, N.J., c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Bathing in front of the big hotels, Atlantic City, N.J., c[between 1910 and 1920]. 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 Bathing in front of the big hotels, 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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Two hotels anchor this view of the Atlantic City beach: the Marlborough-Blenheim rises in the center, and the Hotel Traymore sits at the right edge. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass plate negative between 1910 and 1920, was known for documenting scenic places and leisure across the country. Atlantic City's long boardwalk and row of grand oceanfront hotels made it one of the most popular seaside resorts in the nation, and the bathers gathered on the sand below show how central the beach was to the town's identity. The company kept two variant negatives of the scene, one marked as a duplicate.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesNegatives are variants. Marlborough-Blenheim in center, Hotel Traymore at right. Duplicate" and "G 6260" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072156. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsBeaches. Hotels.United States--New Jersey--Atlantic City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 807 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73268

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