Atlantic City

Herbert Pullinger

An image of the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as its tourism star was on the rise just months before the stock market crash. In the summer of 1929 the New York Times noted that the Bpardwalk was "magnificent proof of America's newly found wealth and leisure." The city had been a vacation spot since the arrival of the train in the 1870s, but it was the building boom of the late 1910s and early 1920s that transformed it into a nationally recognized destination. Here, the famed Marlborough-Blenheim and Traymore hotels -- now gone -- are seen in the distance while tourists amble along the boardwalk and beachgoers relax on the shoreline.

Herbert Pullinger's etching serves as an historical marker of a bygone era, as Atlantic City has gone through tumultuous changes in the last century that included dramatic economic downturns and weather-related disasters. Yet it remains, and continues to be a place for summertime revelry.