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Object Name |
Announcement |
Date |
1891 |
Title |
Steer's Bathing Pavilion |
Description |
Printed advertising card, black ink on off-white card stock. Inscription: "ROW BOATS / TO LET / By the Hour or Day, / AT VERY / REASONABLE TERMS." The reverse side has a high water table for June through September. Printed inscription: "STEER'S / BATHING PAVILION FOR 1891. / 81 Richmond Terrace, / FOOT OF TAYLOR ST., WEST NEW BRIGHTON, S.I. / THE LARGEST AND ONE OF THE BEST BATHING PAVILIONS ON S.I. / 80,000 PEOPLE VISITED THE PAVILION IN 1890. / Music by the Apollo Cornet Band every Monday / and Friday evenings weather permiting. / WE DO NOT ALLOW PROFANE LANGUAGE." (Keywords: New York) |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Earliest Date |
1891 |
Latest Date |
1891 |
Material |
Paper |
Subjects |
Beaches Bathhouses Rowboats |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Steers, Thomas [2] |
Catalog Number |
50.028.0001 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, January 2020. |
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. |