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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view, probably early 20th century New York Harbor. |
| Date: | 07 1910 |
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| Description: | Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Map reads: "Map of the United States of America with its Territories and Districts - Including also a part of Upper and Lower Canada and Mexico". The map i... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r... |
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| Description: | View across water toward people on a small sailboat on Barnegat Bay, and boathouses and buildings on the far shoreline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of village homes on the shores of the bay with docked fishing boats in the foreground. Caption reads, "Marblehead, Mass from Rockmere Point." |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a developed strip of land on Barnegat Bay showing the Atlantic ocean, houses, lakes, railroad tracks, a marina and a jetty in the distance. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A man walking with a cane in the sand dunes on Coney Island. A dilapidated fence cuts across the foreground of the beach and a rock jetty juts into the ba... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View along boardwalk, with people sitting, and other people walking. Buildings are along the left, and on the right is a lifeguard tower that looks down o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men, women and children standing in long rows along the beach, with fingers touching their shoulders, caught in the middle of an exercise ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View along beach toward sunbathers sitting and walking along the seashore. A line of automobiles are parked alongside the beach, separated from the sand by... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Dipsy Baths outbuilding and surrounding beach. Umbrellas are set up in the sand where people sunbathe or wade in the water, and an Ame... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across water toward a crowd of people standing on both the upper and lower level floors of a boathouse overlooking the lake. On the water beside the s... |
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| Description: | View of oceanside residences along a town's main street. |
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| Description: | View downhill towards a neighborhood crowded with cottages. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the city of Port Limon, Costa Rica with the Caribbean Sea in the background. Trees grow amongst the many commercial and residential buildi... |
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