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Image Not Available for View Towards the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach
View Towards the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach
Image Not Available for View Towards the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach

View Towards the Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach

Dateabout 1900
MediumPhotography; gelatin emulsion on film
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 4 3/4 x 6 1/2in. (12.1 x 16.5cm)
Sheet (height x width): 5 x 7in. (12.7 x 17.8cm)
Credit LineGift of the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation
DescriptionThis is the first Breakers Hotel, which burned in 1903; the Beach Casino is to the right. The photograph was taken from the Royal Poinciana Hotel; service buildings are in the foreground, and the Royal Casino is on the right. To the left are the cottages on what is known as "Breakers Row."

From the caption in the exhibition list for "The Photographs of Harriet V.S. Thorne," written by Rollie McKenna.
Object number2011.344.168
MarkingsOn a PrintFile negative preserver in black ink: "Rollie McKenna / [ASSIGNMENT] H.Thorne Collection [NO.] 15 + 16"InscribedRecto: "16" in black ink in bottom left corner
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