1908
GUSN-189540
This full color postcard depicts the luxurious New Ocean House hotel and its gardens in Swampscott, Massachusetts. The hotel gardens are built up all the way to the ocean's edge. At the time the image was captured, the tide was low, exposing sea grasses and sand.
hotels (public accommodations)
gardens
gazebos
shores (landforms)
postcards
photographs
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.03.01.TMP.012
Swampscott (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Hugh C. Leighton Co. (Publisher)
postcards
photographs
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 95.
Item
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