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Rockaway - The Lorraine Hotel, Edgemere. (spelled Loraine here)

Collection: James Supple Collection
Date: ca. 1910; 1905 Material: Color postcard Dimension: 5.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 ppi
Creator: S. Hirschberg Identifier: aql:30218 jsc-000168 jsc-000168.tif

Description: The Lorraine Hotel (spelled Loraine here). Built around 1895, Hotel Lorraine featured a telephone in every room, a dance band and golf, and by 1910, electric elevators and hot & cold running water, all of them innovations at the time. Robert Moses tore down the Lorraine in 1941 to build a parking lot.

Collection : aql:30341

Creator : S. Hirschberg

Date : ca. 1910; 1905

Summary/Description : The Lorraine Hotel (spelled Loraine here). Built around 1895, Hotel Lorraine featured a telephone in every room, a dance band and golf, and by 1910, electric elevators and hot & cold running water, all of them innovations at the time. Robert Moses tore down the Lorraine in 1941 to build a parking lot.

Subject : Hotels

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Coverage : Far Rockaway, Queens, NY Far Rockaway (New York, N.Y.) Rockaway (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Postcards

Format : Color postcard; 5.5 x 3.5 inches; 400 ppi

Identifier : aql:30218 jsc-000168 jsc-000168.tif

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