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Avenue of tent dwellings, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, circa 1907

Subjects
Camping & HikingResidences
Card type
Printed photo
Date
c. 1902 (Early)
Front of Avenue of tent dwellings, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, circa 1907, c. 1902 printed photo postcard
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Back of Avenue of tent dwellings, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, circa 1907, c. 1902 printed photo postcard
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About this postcard

A tree-shaded avenue lined with rows of white canvas tents pitched on wooden platforms, with a large multi-story frame building rising behind them and a low rail fence along the street in the foreground. Ocean Grove, founded in 1869 as a Methodist camp-meeting ground on the New Jersey shore, became famous for just this sort of tent colony, where families summered in canvas dwellings set among permanent cottages and frame boarding houses. The card's own caption names the scene simply as "An Avenue of Tent Dwellers."

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

We are now at the [illegible] we wrote that you had sent the [illegible] letter. Many thanks for same. Will write later. A

PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
7442—An Avenue of Tent Dwellers, Ocean Grove, N. J --- Post Card THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS
PostmarkedWest Long Branch, NJ, August 15, 1906
Stamp
Addressed to
Bertha Kirby

Medford, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked, West Long Branch, NJ
PublisherSouvenir Post Card Co.
Series7442
ConditionGood
Place addressedBertha Kirby, Medford, MA
Place depictedOcean Grove, NJ
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902
NotesBlack-and-white halftone with a white margin at right carrying the caption and a vertical publisher imprint; handwritten message in the right margin and a circular postmark (partly reading "ADELPHIA") struck over the lower center of the image, indicating undivided-back era use. Rough wear along the left edge. Postmark: WEST LONG BRANCH N.J. AUG 15 1906 (with a second, partly legible receiving cancel at left). Undivided back printed "Post Card / THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS" in red; 1¢ Franklin stamp; halftone/matte stock; light edge and corner wear, slight soiling.

Cite this card

Avenue of tent dwellings, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, circa 1907, postcard, c. 1902. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/avenue-of-tent-dwellings-ocean-grove-new-jersey-circa-1907. Accessed October 24, 2026.