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Title: [Beach scene, with boardwalk, New Jersey?]
Description: Depicts people strolling along the beach, with a view of the boardwalk in the distance, including a pavilion with "Clabby's" written on the side. In the foreground, a white man and an African American woman attired in bathing suits, talk to a man attired in a suit and hat. Many men and women walk on the beach. An unidentified pier is visible in the distance., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame, 1983., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Berry, Frank, 1863-, photographer
Date: [ca. 1907]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.71]

Title: [Beach scene, with boardwalk, New Jersey?]
Description: Depicts people strolling along the beach, with a view of the boardwalk in the distance, including a pavilion with "Clabby's" written on the side. In the foreground, a white man and an African American woman attired in bathing suits, talk to a man attired in a suit and hat. Many men and women walk on the beach. An unidentified pier is visible in the distance., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame, 1983., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Berry, Frank, 1863-, photographer
Date: [ca. 1907]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.71]

Title: Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday, the boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J
Description: Group portrait of a crowd of hundreds of promenaders crammed on the Atlantic City boardwalk during the Lenten season of the early 1920s. All the promenaders are attired in hats and their holiday best, including an elegant African American woman. The Schlitz Hotel, the Hotel Dunlop, the Steel Pier, and the Atlantic Ocean are seen in the background. Spectators look down from the balcony at the Schlitz Hotel. Starting in the late 19th century, Atlantic City became a haven for the well-to-do to celebrate Easter and model their fashionable holiday wear and millinery., Purchase 1984., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., Blind stamp: George S. MacManus Co. Corporation Seal Pennsylvania 1940., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - unidentified - Cities [P.9005.29]

Title: [Group portrait including photographer W.L. Germon on the porch of the hotel Long Beach House]
Description: Group portrait of over thirty men, women, and children posed sitting and standing on the veranda and the ground in front of the Long Beach House. Group includes an African American man and a African American woman servant. Germon, a Philadelphia photographer and engraver, stands second from right attired in a hat and collared shirt with white trim. The resort hotel was located opposite Tuckerton, N.J., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript written on mount, Aug. 14th, 1868., Purchase 1985., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: August 14, 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Germon [P.9101.2]

Title: [African American woman caregiver with her two white charges in Atlantic City]
Description: Full-length portrait of an African American woman caretaker standing on the steps with a white girl and a white boy. The woman, wearing her hair tied up and attired in a hat and a long-sleeved, white dress with a belt, stands on the sidewalk before the stairs with her right hand in front of her waist and her left hand behind her back. The girl, wearing her curly hair with a bow tied in the left and attired in a long-sleeved white dress with a belt, white socks, and Mary Jane shoes, stands on the steps facing the viewer with her hands at her side. In the right, the boy, attired in a sailor suit with a belt and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his hands at his sides. In the left is "The Criterion," a hair dressing parlor in Atlantic City. The parlor operated from 1907 until 1908, first at the Hotel Islesworth, then The Hotel Bothwell., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from the attire of the sitters., Accessioned 1998., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1907]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Recreation [P.9619.3]

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