Photographs, documents, maps, objects.

The eastern approach, April 1524

Atlantic approaches, off the Highlands bluff

Tiera de Esteva Gomez on the Ribeiro planisphere, 1529

The Atlantic seaboard as mapped in 1529

The marks and seals on the 1674 Tinton Falls deed

Warumnonung · The Falls · now Tinton Falls, Monmouth County

Merchants' Memorial to Cadwallader Colden urging a Lighthouse at Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook · petitioned from the City of New York

Sandy Hook Lighthouse

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, Fort Hancock, Gateway NRA

A Sketch of the Operations of His Majesty's Fleet and Army under the Command of Viscount and General Howe, 1776

New York Bay, Manhattan, and the Hudson to Haverstraw

Five Views of the Entrance to New York Harbour, 1777

Approaches to New York Harbor from Sandy Hook to the Narrows

The Light House on Sandy Hook, S.E. one mile

Sandy Hook Lighthouse from one mile south-east

Chart of the Entrance of Hudson's River, from Sandy Hook to New York, 1778

Hudson's River entrance from Sandy Hook to New York

Letter from Major General Lord Stirling to Henry Laurens, 15 November 1778

Sandy Hook · dispatched from Elizabeth Town, N.J.

A Chart of the Bar of Sandy Hook, 1784

Sandy Hook bar and approaches to New York Harbor

The High Land of Never-sink and Sandy Hook Light House, 1814

Sandy Hook Lighthouse and the Highlands from the water

The High Land of Never-sink and Sandy Hook Light House, 1814 · colorized

Sandy Hook Lighthouse and the Highlands from the water

A Geological Section from Sandy Hook to the Catskill Mountains, 1820

Sandy Hook to the Catskills · northern New Jersey to New York

A Geological Section from Sandy Hook to the Catskill Mountains, 1820

Sandy Hook to the Catskills · northern New Jersey to New York

Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the Environs, 1844–1845

New York Bay and Harbor · Sandy Hook approaches

Wreck of the Ship John Minturn, 1846

The bar off Mantoloking, Ocean County, New Jersey

Wreck of the Ship John Minturn, 1846 · colorized

The bar off Mantoloking, Ocean County, New Jersey

Wreck of the Ship John Minturn, 1846 · the colorization reveal

The bar off Mantoloking, Ocean County, New Jersey

Showing the progressive changes in Sandy Hook from 1779 to 1851

Sandy Hook peninsula · Head and southern reach

The New Fort near Sandy Hook, 1865 · colorized reinterpretation

Sandy Hook Point · site of the unfinished granite fort

The New Fort near Sandy Hook, Illustrated London News, 29 April 1865

Sandy Hook Point · site of the unfinished granite fort

Beacon Hill, Neversink Highlands

Beacon Hill, the Navesink Highlands

The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill · colorized reinterpretation

Twin Lights of Navesink, Highlands, N.J.

The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill, Navesink Highlands

Twin Lights of Navesink, Highlands, N.J.

The Sea Bird lands, August 1878

Highland Beach steamboat pier

Harper's Weekly, August 17, 1878

Map of Property of the Highland Beach Association, August 1880

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Plan of Highland Beach and Highlands of Navesink · atlas plate

Highland Beach and the Highlands of Navesink

The Great Switchback R.R. at Highland Beach, colorized

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Great Switchback R.R. — a second angle, ca. 1892

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Plat map of Highland Beach lots 20–48, N.J. Southern Railway alignment

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

M. A. Teaney's Meat Market, Highlands

Highlands, N.J.

The Water Witch Club, 1895

Water Witch Historic District, Highlands

The Oracle of the Highlands of Navesink — Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1895

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Basket Pavilion and shooting gallery, ca. 1898

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Bowling & Billiards, Choice Fruits, Imported & Domestic Cigars, ca. 1900

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Ocean bathing at Highland Beach · painterly reinterpretation

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Ocean bathing at Highland Beach, ca. 1900

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Officers' Row, ca. 1900

Officers' Row, Fort Hancock

The pre-Route 36 bridge from the ferry pier, Twin Lights on the ridge

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Independent Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 · charter roster, 1900

Gunnery test report No. 1467, October 1902

The Pilot coming Aboard at Sandy Hook from Pilot Boat "New Yorker", 1904

Sandy Hook pilot station off the peninsula's tip

The Pilot coming Aboard at Sandy Hook, 1904 · colorized reinterpretation

Sandy Hook pilot station off the peninsula's tip

The Highland Beach ferry pier and Shrewsbury bridge, ca. 1905

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Clam skiffs at low tide

Sandy Hook Bay mud flats off Bay Avenue

Colorized postcard — regatta afternoon at the pier, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the New Jersey Southern arrives at Highland Beach, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the Sandlass Pavilion at bathing hour, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the bathhouse row and floating dock, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the pavilion at low tide, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Hand-colored postcard — Highland Beach, Highlands, N.J., ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Merry-Go-Round pavilion and restaurant, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Sandlass Beach Club veranda from the road, ca. 1908

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the Sandy Hook Steamer at Highland Beach, ca. 1910

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the sawtooth Shrewsbury bridge from the Highlands, ca. 1910

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Merry Go Round, Highland Beach, N.J., c. 1910

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Basket Pavilion dance hall, c. 1910

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

William Sandlass Jr., studio portrait, c. 1910

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Early biplane over the Shrewsbury with the Highlands behind, ca. 1911

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Early biplane over the Shrewsbury with the Highlands behind, ca. 1911 · colorized

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

AI-colorized entertainment complex with the Bamboo Garden sign, ca. 1912

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

AI-colorized entertainment complex — plaza detail, ca. 1912

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — Bamboo Garden, Rector's Famous Band Now Here, ca. 1912

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the bathing crowd at the pavilion, ca. 1912

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Highlands station, C.R.R. of N.J.

Waterwitch Avenue, Highlands, N.J.

Sunday Morning, Highland Beach — colorized postcard, ca. 1912

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Sandlass entertainment complex — the plaza corner, ca. 1912

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Bathing in the River, Highlands, N.J., c. 1915

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Sandlass Pavilion, Highland Beach, N.J., c. 1915

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Bamboo Bar in its original position, c. 1915

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Bay Avenue, ca. 1918

Bay Avenue between Miller and Marine, Highlands

Colorized postcard — the swimming platform under HIGHLAND BEACH, ca. 1918

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Four women in a rowboat at the Sandlass Beach bathing area, ca. 1918

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Four women in a rowboat at the Sandlass Beach bathing area, ca. 1918 · colorized

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Highland Beach looking north — ocean, tracks and Building 600 in its original position, c. 1920

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Garden Air-Drome, c. 1920

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Garden Air-Drome, c. 1920 · colorized

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the beach at bathing hour, ca. 1922

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Garden Airdrome

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Bamboo Garden Airdrome interior — small-format print

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The HIGHLAND BEACH bathhouse row, ca. 1925

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Colorized postcard — the Highland Beach swimming area, ca. 1928

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Highland Beach station platform on a summer Saturday, ca. 1928

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Meet Mrs. Sandlass — Sandy Hook Steamers newspaper advertisement, ca. 1930

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Framed oil painting of a Hawaiian hula dancer from the Bamboo Room

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Room bar — the full run of the counter, ca. 1935

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Room bar, ca. 1935

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Bamboo Room sign

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Sandlass Baths — the family-house sign from the road, ca. 1935

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Watercolor rendering of the Bamboo Room bar interior

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook Lighthouse — elevation looking northwest, HABS NJ-326 sheet 3, 1937

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, north end of the peninsula

Sandy Hook Lighthouse — south view, HABS NJ-326, 1937

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, north end of the peninsula

The Sandlass Beach parking lot with Twin Lights on the ridge, ca. 1940

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Battery Lewis commissioning, October 1942

Battery Lewis, Navesink Military Reservation

The Sandlass parking lot with the family house, ca. 1946

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

AI-colorized Bamboo Room bartenders, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Aerial view of the Route 36 crossing to Sandy Hook, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Room bar — a wider angle, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Room — the definitive interior, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Inside the Bamboo Room — the hula mural corner and jukebox, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

The Sandlass Beach Club, Highland Beach, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Two Bamboo Room bartenders in uniform, ca. 1948

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

AI-colorized view — the Sandlass parking lot with Building 600, ca. 1950

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Bay Avenue and the Route 36 bridge from above, ca. 1950

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Aerial view of Highland Beach with the rock seawall, ca. 1955

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Highland Beach from the air

Highland Beach, Sandy Hook peninsula

The Merry-Go-Round pavilion — color, later era, ca. 1955

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Color aerial of Highland Beach with the ocean seawall, ca. 1958

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Miss Belmar V fare card, season of 1958

Bay Avenue party-boat dock, ca. 1962

Bay Avenue dock, Highlands

Nike Hercules site NY-56, Sandy Hook

Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, Gateway NRA

The Sandlass family house — Building 600 — in color, ca. 1962

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Bamboo Room menu cover — the Sea Bright location, ca. 1965

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Public Law 92-592, October 27, 1972

Bay Avenue looking east at the dock, ca. 1975

Bay Avenue, Highlands, looking east

Mount Mitchill, morning of September 11, 2001

Mount Mitchill summit, Highlands

Bay Avenue at surge peak, October 29, 2012

Bay Avenue, Highlands, surge peak

Bay Avenue, October 30, 2012 — the morning after

Bay Avenue, Highlands

USGS high-water mark, benchmark HG-05

Sandy Hook and the Highlands from Landsat 8, August 26, 2015

Sandy Hook peninsula and the Navesink Highlands

Sandy Hook Lighthouse at the decommissioned Fort Hancock, 2017

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, north end of the peninsula

The parking lot on a summer Saturday, ca. 2018

Sandy Hook Unit parking lots, Gateway NRA

Bahrs Landing, working waterfront

2 Bay Avenue, Highlands, N.J.

The Twin Lights beam

Twin Lights State Historic Site, Highlands, N.J.

The Sandy Hook Lighthouse at dawn

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, north end of the peninsula

A small boat crosses the bay

Sandy Hook Bay, off the Highlands

The Pratter at the dock

The bayshore, Highlands

The Pratter, underway

Sandy Hook Bay, off the Highlands

Manhattan across the bay, evening

Sandy Hook Bay, from the Highlands

Manhattan across the bay, night

The Highlands, looking across the bay

A windy afternoon on the bay

Sandy Hook Bay, off the Highlands

A boat and the buoy, the city beyond

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

A boat below the bluff

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

Fishing past the channel buoy

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

Shorefront houses at sundown

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

A deer at sundown

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

A deer crosses the road

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

Sundown over the bay

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

Watching the sun go down

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

The spit and the open bay

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

The city from the ridge

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

A rough day, the city behind

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

Gulls on the flats

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

The Sandy Hook Lighthouse lantern

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

The city through the grass

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

A buck in the brush

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

The city at blue hour

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

The city over the spit

The Sandy Hook bayshore, Highlands

Battery Lewis today at Hartshorne Woods

Hartshorne Woods County Park, Highlands

Bay Avenue elevated, today

Bay Avenue, Highlands

Bay Avenue today

Bay Avenue between Miller and Marine, Highlands

Mount Mitchill Scenic Overlook today

Mount Mitchill Scenic Overlook, Highlands

North Beach, Sandy Hook, from the air

North Beach, Gateway NRA (former Highland Beach)

The Twin Lights from the air

Navesink Twin Lights, Highlands

The approaches, from the Highlands

Sandy Hook approaches

The same dock today

Bay Avenue dock, Highlands

The working waterfront from the air

The Highlands waterfront

Water Witch Historic District today

Water Witch Historic District, Highlands

The ridge the river is named for, 2026

Over Highlands, looking south to the Navesink Highlands ridge

Sandy Hook from the air, 2026

Sandy Hook peninsula

The Hook and the city, 2026

North Sandy Hook, looking toward New York

A Highlands marina from above, 2026

The Highlands waterfront

The mouth of the Navesink, 2026

Navesink River at Sandy Hook

The Route 36 bridge, 2026

Route 36 bridge, Highlands to Sea Bright

Highlands at first light, 2026

Highlands, looking north over Sandy Hook Bay

Bahr's Landing, Highlands, New Jersey — vintage linen postcard

Bahrs Landing, Bay Avenue, Highlands