HIGH VIEW HOTEL : CHESAPEAKE BEACH, MARYLAND : MULTIPLE GUESTS POSING : RPPC

This vintage real photo postcard features the High View Hotel, located in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. The wooden hotel has three porches, two elevated. Guests are posing for the photo at all three levels. Chesapeake Beach is and was a resort community. It golden days were in the early 1900’s. Steamer ships from Baltimore and trains from Washington D.C. would fill the town with tourists on the weekends. There was a lot to do in the town including swimming, strolling a long boardwalk with amusements, bowling, theater, music, dancing, drinking and gambling. This postcard was published by William H. Tutty (Chesapeake Beach).  SOLD

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TEN YOUNG WOMEN DRESSED TO THE NINES IN CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND (1897)

This cabinet card presents ten beautifully and formally dressed young women. They are wearing corsages, decorative hats, and fancy white dresses. The photographer is Darnell, whose studio was located in Cumberland, Maryland. The photograph is dated 1897. The young women are identified on the reverse of the card. The first row includes Reushel, F. Babwin (?), A. Dilfer,and M. Stucklarcer. The middle row includes E. Frost, Minnie Wiesmiller, and S. Asenbacker. The third row includes Emma Miller, Emma Ebert, and Wilhemina Windemuth.   (SOLD)

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