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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across water toward six men standing on a deck with railings on Peck Ledge Lighthouse in Norwalk Harbor, put into operation in 1906. Caption reads: "P... |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Vacationers wade at a beach near a row of what appear to be hotel buildings. Groups of people sit near boats onshore and a group of women sits at the end o... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a beach and houses that line the shore. People sit on the beach, and a woman in the foreground wades in the water. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of sunbathing adults and children standing and sitting near a blanket, folding chairs, and umbrella set up on a beach. In the background, swimmers ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a resort shoreline lined with vacation houses. People walk along the beach, swim, and sit on the sand or on an elevated boardwalk near the water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people walking along Midland Beach and boardwalk. Several buildings stand alongside the boardwalk and a Ferris wheel is in the background. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the beach and boardwalk at Playland, crowded with people walking on the boardwalk, sunbathing on the beach and wading in the water. The be... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline of excursion boats docked at Playland near a jetty. People walk on the dock to board the boat, and tables shaded by umbrellas ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View toward people relaxing on a beach under umbrellas and other people wading in the water. On the right a woman is walking down a boardwalk to get to the... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An elevated lifeguard station stands on the sand at Wriests Beach while people sunbathe on the beach and wade in the water. The sign on the lifeguard stati... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A rowboat rests on the sand at a beach while sunbathers gather around umbrellas set up nearby. A boardwalk and several buildings are in in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view toward men, women and children relaxing and sunbathing on the beach. A few people are wading in the water. |
| 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: | 10 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of U.S.S. Wisconsin (BB-64) in San Francisco Bay. Several boats can be seen in the water near the ship and San Francisco is visible in t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards couples, adults, and children sunbathing on the beach and wading in the water. In the distance is an establishment with ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View along seashore toward people playing on the beach and wading into the water during low tide. Buildings line the hills in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View toward bathing beach and seashore, with people sunbathing near umbrellas and wading in the water. Summer homes are in the background on the cliffs alo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a pond in the foreground, and the seashore beyond. Houses are along the cliffs in the background. |
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