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EXTREMELY RARE! ORIGINAL! CONEY ISLAND VANDERVEER'S BATHING HOUSE PHOTO c1883
EXTREMELY RARE VIEW! ORIGINAL! CONEY ISLAND VANDERVEER'S BATHING PAVILION PHOTO c1883
THIS PHOTO CAPTURES PART OF THE FIRST AMUSEMENT PARK IN AMERICA, ATVANDERVEER'S BATHING HOUSE LATERBALMER'S BATHING PAVILION IN 1883 THAT DATES BACK TO 1876.
( Charles Looff Carroussel First carousel and amusement ride at Coney Island. Installed at Mrs. Lucy Vanderveer's Bathing Pavilion in 1876. It was probably burned during a devastating fire on Coney Island in 1911)
PICTURED ON THE RIGHT IS BALMER'S BATHING PAVILION, FORMERLY VANDERVEER'S BATHING PAVILION BUILT IN 1882. (ULTIMATELY THE BUILDING WAS DESTROYED DURING THE HURRICANE AND GREAT FIRE OF 1893 DESTROYING MUCH OF CONEY ISLAND.)VACATIONERS ARE SEEN STROLLING ALONG GAS LIGHT LINED BOARDWALKS. SEVERAL SIGNS CAN BE SEENALONG WITH UNUSUAL UNIDENTIFIABLE ATTRACTIONS / RIDES.
HAND OPAQUED INTO THE ORIGINAL LOWER LEFT NEGATIVE;
West Brighton (Coney Island.) View from Observatory
DIMENSIONS OF OUTER MOUNT: 5" x 8 1/2".
IMAGE IS SEPIA TONED.
VERY GOOD FOCUS WITH GOOD CONTRAST.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
JOSEPH HALL 111 FULTON ST. BROOKLYN, N. Y.
PHOTO'S CONDITION IS VERY FINE FOR ITS 141 + YEARS.
THE MOUNT'SCONDITION IS VERY FINE OVERALL FOR ITS 140 + YEARS WITH SOME LIGHT HANDLING AND SOME PERIOD ALBUM RESIDUE AND REVERSE SURFACE TAPE PULLS, SCUFFS.
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