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Bathers and Beach Huts

Long Beach, New York
1882 LB188210

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   A row of sun huts shelter groups of bathers, while others stroll along the water's edge (1).

Commentary
   Long Beach, just east of Far Rockaway, remains a popular playground to this day, and is much more congested.

Source
   Jasper Francis Cropsey, "Long Beach," watercolor on paper, Newington Cropsey Foundation. Scanned from Ronald G. Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting, 1820-1920, A New York Graphic Society Book, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1985. 1 picture.
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