Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Boardwalk, South Beach, Staten Island] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
ca. 1905-1915 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print with fabric backing and a paper tab at left (appears to have been part of an album). Diagonal front view of a row of buildings along the boardwalk in South Beach, Staten Island, with the beach in the foreground. There are numerous people on the beach and boardwalk. Businesses visible include Schaffer's Postal Fotos, a Chop Suey restaurant (the name is not visible), a lemonade and orangeade stand, sanitary baths, and a shooting gallery. (Keywords: New York City, Early Twentieth Century) |
Print size |
4.625 x 6.625 |
Acquisition |
Gift of Edwin Skinner |
Ownership and History |
This is one of a group of photographs donated to the Historical Society in 1952 by Edwin H. Skinner, who for many years was manager of the Staten Island Beach Land Improvement Company in South Beach. |
Earliest Date |
1905 |
Latest Date |
1915 |
Subjects |
Beaches Restaurants Boardwalks Photographic studios |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Skinner, Edwin H. |
Catalog Number |
52.012.0014 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, April 2017. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |