"Dock, Bay Shore, @ 1908 Fully clothed despite the summer heat, these vacationers are leaving their horse-drawn carriage just in time to catch the Point O'Woods ferry that will take them across Great South Bay. At rear center of the photograph is a banner marking the departure spot for Saltaire, a popular resort at the turn of the century. Photograph by Henry Otto Korten, Nassau County Museum."
Suffolk County Long Island in Early Photographs, 1867-1951 (Lightfoot, Martin and Weidman, Dover Publications New York, 1984).
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