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A sepia photograph ca. 1898 of the Basket Pavilion at Highland Beach — three-story wooden dance hall with hexagonal tower, station platform at left with passengers in Edwardian dress, horse carriages in the middle, and a SHOOTING GALLERY building at right
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The Basket Pavilion and shooting gallery, ca. 1898

ca. 1898

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook (general area)

The Basket Pavilion at Highland Beach, ca. 1898 — a three-story wooden dance hall with a hexagonal tower topped by a spire, in one of the earliest surviving photographs of the pavilion complex. At left, a long open-sided shelter serves as the trolley and station platform; a group of Edwardian-dressed passengers waits with a phonograph horn on a pole (a Roebling loudspeaker used to project band music across the beach). At right, a small carnival building labeled BOWLING ALLEYS · SHOOTING GALLERY; horse-drawn carriages wait between the two.

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Title
The Basket Pavilion and shooting gallery, ca. 1898
Date
ca. 1898
Source
Sandlass Family Collection · via ATH archive
Contributor
Sandlass Family Collection
Rights
Sandlass Family Collection — permission granted for ATH publication
Slug
hb-family-img-8478

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The Basket Pavilion and shooting gallery, ca. 1898 (ca. 1898). Sandlass Family Collection · via ATH archive The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/hb-family-img-8478/.