Details
Creator Aero Service Corporation, photographer.
Title Steel Pier, Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue, Atlantic City, New Jersey. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1931
Date 1931
Physical Description 2 negatives : nitrate ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Description Aerial views of the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Distant and close-up views show the pier and adjacent hotels and beaches along the Boardwalk. The Steel Pier was one of the major amusement piers built off the boardwalk in Atlantic City at the turn of the century. In 1898, the steel girder structure extended 1500 feet from the boardwalk into the Atlantic Ocean and was expanded to 1780 feet in the 1930s.
Notes Negative numbers: 14863n, 14867n.
Subject Amusement piers -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Beaches -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Boardwalks -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Historic sites -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Hotels -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Coastlines -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Piers & wharves -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Geographic subject Atlantic City (N.J.)
Atlantic Ocean.
Genre Nitrate negatives -- 1930-1940.
Aerial photographs -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Aero Service [P.8990.14863n; P.8990.14867n]
Accession number P.8990.14863n
P.8990.14867n