Description
When the 20th century was once young, visitors to Cape Might knew exactly how you can show the parents back home the attractions, accommodations, and ambiance of “the Nation’s Oldest Seaside Resort”: they sent a penny postcard. Publishers such as local entrepreneur Joseph K. Hand provided an unlimited collection of views, capturing white sands crowded with colorful tents and wool-suited bathers or beachfront hotels such because the Stockton, Lafayette, and Congress Hall. Popular postcards depicted amusement centers and nearby diversions: the Casino, Red Mill, Corinthian Yacht Club, Fun Factory, Convention Hall, and Cape Might Point Lighthouse. Reprinted Victorian views of hotels destroyed by fire served as reminders of the resort’s glory days. Real-photo cards chronicled newsworthy events including the creation of the harbor, construction of the large Hotel Cape Might, and the 1907 fire on the Iron Pier.