Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Gartner's Hotel and Restaurant] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
1916 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print. View of a crowded beach at South Beach, Staten Island; many of the men and women are wearing bathing suits. A woman in a group seated in the foreground sticks out her tongue at the camera. There is a row of buildings in the background; the building at left is Gartner's Hotel and Restaurant. Handwritten inscription along the top edge: "1916". Handwritten inscriptions in pencil on reverse: "Resting on the Beach / at South Beach / S.I." (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. Gartner's Hotel was operated by Ida Gartner (1854-1919), who was born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. with her children in 1899. |
Earliest Date |
1916 |
Latest Date |
1916 |
Subjects |
Beaches Restaurants Hotels Boardwalks |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Skinner, Edwin H. Gartner, Ida |
Catalog Number |
52.012.0012 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, November 2016. |
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. |