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 11 b&w photos |  4 data pages |  1 photo caption pages |
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TITLE:
Steel Pier, Boardwalk at Virginia Avenue, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, NJ
CALL NUMBER:
HAER NJ,1-ATCI,1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 11 (2.25 x 2.25 in. and 2.5 x 3)
Data Page(s): 3 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
NOTE:
Survey number HAER NJ-64
Significance: The Steel Pier was one of the major amusement piers built off the boardwalk in Atlantic City at the turn of the century. In 1898, the steel girder structure extended 1500 feet from the boardwalk into the Atlantic Ocean and was expanded to 1780 feet in the 1930s. A variety of theaters, ballrooms, and amusement arcades were built on the pier to house the exhibits, vaudeville shows, concerts, films, and other diversions which entertained visitors to the resort city for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century.
SUBJECTS:
NEW JERSEY--Atlantic County--Atlantic City
civil engineering
historic sites
adaptive reuse
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.nj1065
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING NORTHWEST
2. AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING NORTHEAST
3. AERIAL VIEW OF OCEAN END OF PIER, LOOKING NORTHEAST
4. AERIAL VIEW OF CENTER SECTION OF PIER, LOOKING NORTHEAST
5. AERIAL VIEW OF BOARDWALK END OF PIER, LOOKING NORTHEAST
6. VIEW OF MAIN ENTRANCE ON BOARDWALK ELEVATION, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
7. VIEW, LOOKING NORTH, AT DETAIL OF CUPOLA ON BUILDING AT BOARDWALK END OF PIER
8. VIEW OF OPENING IN PIER DECK, APPROXIMATELY HALFWAY OUT ON PIER, LOOKING NORTHEAST
9. INTERIOR, AMUSEMENT ARCADE, LOOKING SOUTH
10. VIEW OF BUILDINGS AT PIER END AND DIVING HORSE PLATFORM, LOOKING NORTHEAST
11. VIEW OF EXPOSED PIER STRUCTURE AT OCEAN END, LOOKING SOUTH
CONTROL #:
NJ1065
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