Sunset off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, circa 1903

About this postcard

A small open boat carrying three figures in red-and-white jerseys, one at the oars, drifts beside a red-hulled dory while two sailboats stand on the horizon under a glowing sunset sky. The card's own caption names the scene as "Sunset off Sandy Hook," the low sandy barrier peninsula at the northern tip of the New Jersey shore where New York Harbor meets the Atlantic, long worked by fishermen and oystermen. The artist signature at lower left, F. Coppola, and the publisher line of J. Koehler of New York identify this as an early twentieth-century chromolithograph view.