Postcards of Connecticut Beaches
PublisherPublished by
Danziger & Berman
PublisherPublished by
Handie Shop
PublisherPublished by
Detroit Photographic Co.
(American)
Date1900-1960
MediumPhotomechanical prints; colored and black and white printers' inks on postcards
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/2 x 5 1/2in. (8.9 x 14cm) and smaller
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 5 1/2in. (8.9 x 14cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 5 1/2in. (8.9 x 14cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Nancy K. Smith
DescriptionPostcards include images of several Connecticut shoreline beaches. Images include Double Beach (Branford), Seaside Park (Bridgeport), Gaertner's Island on Byram Shore (East Port Chester), Eastern Point (Groton), Field Point and South Beach (Greenwich), Hammonassett Beach, Madison Beach, Webster Point Beach, Middle Beach, Sound view Beach, Shore Edge Beach, and Tom's Rock Beach (Madison), Pond Point Beach and Merwins Point Beach (Milford), Crescent Beach (Niantic), and Camp Beach Pavilion (Westport).
Images include women in bathing suits, sailing, playing, and swimming on the Long Island shoreline. Other views include private residences along the shore, Hotel Griswold, boat houses, sunbathers, the boardwalk on Hammonassett, the Madison Beach Hotel and cottages, beach umbrellas, automobiles, boats, picnic areas, ice-cream parlors, and Hillyer's Public Bath Houses.
Images include women in bathing suits, sailing, playing, and swimming on the Long Island shoreline. Other views include private residences along the shore, Hotel Griswold, boat houses, sunbathers, the boardwalk on Hammonassett, the Madison Beach Hotel and cottages, beach umbrellas, automobiles, boats, picnic areas, ice-cream parlors, and Hillyer's Public Bath Houses.
Object number2009.27.70-.104
NotesSubject Note: 2009.27.73 is an image of four people sailing on a boat off of Double Beach that has come about and the boom has knocked them backward over the cockpit. The image is titled "Going Sailing-When the Boom Swings Over." The image was published by C. T. American Art.On View
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