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Interior of Great Auditorium and organ, Ocean Grove, NJ, 1939

Subjects
ChurchesCrowds & GatheringsInteriors
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1939 (Linen)
Front of Interior of Great Auditorium and organ, Ocean Grove, NJ, 1939, Samuel Strauss Co., NY, USA, c. 1939 linen postcard
Front
Back of Interior of Great Auditorium and organ, Ocean Grove, NJ, 1939, Samuel Strauss Co., NY, USA, c. 1939 linen postcard
Back

About this postcard

The view looks down the tiers of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, toward the pipe organ facade and a platform centered on an American flag. The mottoes "Holiness to the Lord" and "So Be Ye Holy" flank the choir loft. The auditorium, built in 1894, is the centerpiece of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist seaside camp founded in 1869. Its Hope-Jones organ, installed in 1908, was promoted as the largest in the world, a claim the printed caption repeats. The sender calls the hall very large and puts its capacity at ten thousand people, a scale in keeping with the summer preaching services that drew crowds to the Jersey Shore camp.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Bob: This is a very large Auditorium holds ten thousand people. We are having lovely weather so nice for Vivian is on her vacation & we are having a lovely rest. Vivian looks at your picture so much and shows it to everyone if you dont get here soon it will be all worn out. Affectionately Mae M. Decker.

PublisherSamuel Strauss Co.
Interior of Auditorium, showing Largest Organ in the World, Ocean Grove, N. J.
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Postcard record

PublisherSamuel Strauss Co.
Series9A-H2231
ConditionVery good
PublisherSamuel Strauss Co., Brooklyn, NY
NotesLinen-textured stock with a cream/white border; Curt Teich-style production number 9A-H2231 at lower right, indicating a 1939 issue. No postmark. Divided-back linen-texture Curteich card ("C.T. Art-Colortone", number 9A-H2231) with Samuel Strauss Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. imprint; light edge wear, faint pencil dealer stock code and price "SALTY 3" at top center. In the message, a word before "ten thousand" is struck through.

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Interior of Great Auditorium and organ, Ocean Grove, NJ, 1939, postcard, c. 1939. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/interior-of-great-auditorium-and-organ-ocean-grove-nj-1939. Accessed November 2, 2026.