(BUSINESS) General Scott Assistants Bathing Robes to Hire

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800

(BUSINESS.) "General Scott & Assistants--Bathing Robes to Hire." Carte-de-Visite photograph depicting a group of men standing by a couple of small buildings with an array of bathing robes for rental. Cape May, circa 1890s-1900

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Cape May, and other areas in South Jersey were home to several black townships and early black enterprise. Among them, in five South Jersey counties -- Port Republic, Morris Beach, Newtonville and Elwood in Atlantic County; Whitesboro in Cape May County; Gouldtown and Springtown in Cumberland County; Small Gloucester, Swedesboro and Elsmere in Gloucester County; and Lawnside and Chesilhurst in Camden County. Many were near the water. Here an entrepreneur rents bathing suits for visitors to the beach.