North End of the Ocean Grove Boardwalk

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Title

North End of the Ocean Grove Boardwalk

Subject

The busyness of the Ocean Grove boardwalk and the material and commercialized focus surrounding the souvenir industry/vendors.

Description

Depicts vendors set up in a row down the boardwalk. Selling glassware, leather novelties, and such.

Source

From book by Wayne T. Bell and Christopher M. Flynn called Ocean Grove in Vintage Postcards.

Publisher

Historical Society of Ocean Grove

https://oceangrovehistory.org/2014/10/01/victorian-seaside-souvenirs-harry-houdini/

Date

circa 1880

Files

ocean city souvenirs.jpg

Citation

“North End of the Ocean Grove Boardwalk,” Materiality and Spectacle in Nineteenth Century United States 2017, accessed December 1, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality/items/show/80.