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Cover of tourism promotional brochure circa 1900. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

International swimming match at Long Branch between Messrs. J. B. Johnson and Andrew Trautz showing competitors going out to practice in 1874 print. Image: New York Public Library Digital Collections

President James Garfield shown with wife at oceanfront house in Elberon section of Long Branch, where he was brought by train after being shot in Washington on July 2, 1881, and where he died on September 19, 1881. Image: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper/LibraryofCongress

Flyer in 1880 promoting annual Knights of Columbus train trip to Atlantic City. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Post card circa 1890. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Overhead view of Atlantic City in 1909. Image: Library of Congress

Damaged homes on Mantoloking beachfront in photograph taken March 2013, five months after Hurricane Sandy devastated shoreline on October 29, 2012. Image: Federal Emergency Management Agency/Wendell Davis Jr.

Monmouth Hotel in Spring Lake on postcard circa 1930-1945. Image: Boston Public Library

Scenes of Brigantine Wilderness in Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway Township. Image: US Fish & Wildlife Service

Front page of The Press of Atlantic City on June 3, 1977, day after signing of bill by Governor Byrne establishing licensing process for casinos. Image: New Jersey State Archives

Cover of promotional brochure circa 1920s. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

United States Hotel in Atlantic City, built and owned by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, in print published in 1878. Image: DavidRumsey.com

Walter Evans Edge, founder of The Press of Atlantic City, and New Jersey governor from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1944 to 1947. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Newspaper article relating to mob influence in Atlantic City with photo showing Al Capone, Nucky Johnson and other crime leaders on boardwalk during alleged 1929 Atlantic City Conference of national mob bosses.

Steel Pier poster 1920. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

'Father of Atlantic City' Dr. Jonathan Pitney (1797-1869). Image: Wikipedia

Revel Casino in photo prior to its opening in 2012. Image: accasinoconnection.com

Boardwalk and Young's Million Dollar Pier on postcard circa 1910. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

The Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, completed in 1894, has hosted religious services and concerts by prominent choirs and such popular performers as the band led by John Philip Sousa, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles and The Beach Boys. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Railroad service from Philadelphia, such as the "Boardwalk Flyer" of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad which commenced around 1890, was key to the growth of Atlantic City. Image: Atlantic City Public Library

Soldiers receiving small arms training on beach in 1942 during World War II. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Thomas Manning-US Air Force

Bathers at Richards Baths in Atlantic City in postcard circa 1910. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Atlantic City boardwalk and Million Dollar Pier shown in 1908 postcard. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Cape May beachfront. Image: WikimediaCommons/Smallbones

"Tent City" in Ocean Grove, 114 tents which began as summer housing in 1869 for those coming to Ocean Grove to hear prominent preachers and continue to be leased seasonally to tenants by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Absecon Lighthouse at north end of Atlantic City, first lit in 1857, is the tallest lighthouse in New Jersey and the third-tallest masonry lighthouse in the United States. Image: State of New Jersey

View from Twin Lights in Atlantic Highlands overlooking Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook. Image: National Park Service

Breach in barrier island at Mantoloking created by coastal flooding and erosion during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012. Image: US Geological Service

Damage in Ocean City from Hurricane of 1944. Image: Library of Congress

Marina and homes on Barnegat Bay. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Satellite photo of Northeast storm off East Coast on December 27, 2010. Image: National Aeronautics & Space Administration

Overhead view in post card circa 1930-1945 of Seaside Heights with Freeman's Carousel, built in 1915, destroyed in a 1955 fire and then rebuilt in modified layout. Image: Boston Public Library

Asbury Park beach in summer 2016. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

Ferry between Ocean Grove and Asbury Park conveying passengers over Wesley Lake bordering the two towns in drawing published August 31, 1878 in Harper's Weekly. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

The Stone Pony, bar in Asbury Park famed for its role in early career performances of noted rock bands, including those with roots in NJ such as Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes and Bon Jovi. Image: NewJerseyAlmanac.com

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Baby Parade on Asbury Park boardwalk in 1904, with scenes of boys dressed as soldiers and sailors and girls dressed in oriental costume marching in groups, mothers pushing decorated carriages, and horse-drawn floats. Video: Library of Congress

Bathing at Atlantic City in movie shot in 1901 by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Video: Library of Congress

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