Name/Title
Photo of Wigwam and laundry buildings, Neptune Gardens, c. 1890Entry/Object ID
1995.95.1Description
Acc. No. 95.95.1
Subject Category: BEACHES - Neptune
Date or Period: Ca. 1890
Object: Photograph
Description: Sepia-tone albumen print mounted on lt. lilac paperboard. Some damage to upper right corner and lower left margin of image. Photographer unknown.
Size: L-5 1/4 x W-8 1/2 In.
History of Object: View of the "Wigwam" and adjacent laundry buildings constructed as part of the Neptune Beach complex by Sen. James G. Eair of Nevada, who bought the beach property as a traffic incentive for his Pacific Coast railroad - which ran from Alameda down to Santa Cruz.
Acquired from: Miss Edna A. Sullivan
Date: 5-13-95
Pre-1971 donation, old cat. #253
