Details
Contributor Lineaweaver & Wallace, printer.
Title New Excursion House, Atlantic City. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Lineaweaver & Wallace
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 62 x 52 cm (24.5 x 20.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing an exterior view of the New Excursion House, opened in 1869, and beachfront in Atlantic City, N.J. Shows guests, sitting, standing, and looking out from the three-story resort hotel with a watch tower and covered porches. In front and near the hotel, men and women walk on the grounds, a man rides on a horse, and several horse-drawn carriages travel. In the left, a Camden and Atlantic Railroad Co. train stops at the hotel. In the foreground, waves crash on the shore as bathers wade into the water using two safety lines mounted between masts on the beach and in the ocean. Captain William Tell Street patented his Life Line for Sea Bathing safety device in 1868.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Text printed on recto below image: This house is situated within forty feet of the surf, constructed expressly for the accommodation of excursionists, and containing everything necessary for their comfort and amusement. Carncross & Dixey’s Brass Band and Orchestra has been engaged for the season, free of charge to excursion parties. Although the bathing is perfectly safe at this point, yet, to insure confidence, Street’s Safety Apparatus has been erected on the grounds. Excursion trains run directly to the house as represented.
Subject Camden and Atlantic Railroad Co.
New Excursion House (Atlantic City, N.J.)
Carriages & coaches -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Horses -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Railroad trains -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Resorts -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Safety equipment -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Swimmers -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Swimming -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Geographic subject Atlantic City (N.J.)
Genre Wood engravings -- 1860-1870.
Printer Lineaweaver & Wallace, printer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.46]
Accession number P.2019.64.46