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Creator Chester & Handy.
Title [Group on beach, Cape May, New Jersey] [graphic].
Publisher Cape May : List of photographic views of Cape May, N.J., published by Chester & Handy, photographers, next to Stockton Bath Houses
Publisher N.J. Cape May. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description View showing a group of people gathered on the beach in Cape May, New Jersey with large hotel buildings in the background. Several men and women wear bathing suits and are stretched out in the sand in the foreground. Others sit in chairs or stand with parasols. In the background, a large building with tall columns, probably Congress Hall, is partially visible.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's imprint on verso with printed list of fifty-three unnumbered views in the series.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Biographical / historical note Samuel C. Chester and Levin Corbin Handy partnered together in the 1880s.
Subject Beaches -- New Jersey -- Cape May.
Bathing suits -- New Jersey -- Cape May.
Vacations -- New Jersey -- Cape May.
Hotels -- New Jersey -- Cape May.
Geographic subject Cape May (N.J.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Chester & Handy [P.9260.11]
Accession number P.9260.11