BAKER & RECORD SARATOGA SPRINGS NY OFFICE OF GRAND UNION HOTEL STEREOVIEW
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BAKER & RECORD SARATOGA SPRINGS NY OFFICE OF GRAND UNION HOTEL STEREOVIEW:
$12.95
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- Offered for sale is an early stereoview Photographed by Baker & Record, Saratoga Springs, NY. The stereoview is titled as follows
- OFFICE OF GRAND UNION HOTEL, SARATOGA, N.Y. much of the 19th century, Saratoga Springs was the “Queen of the Spa” resorts with the added attraction of horse racing and a first rate casino along with proximity to New York City from which it drew a large part of its monied clientele, attracting the likes of the Vanderbilts, Fisks, Goulds and Asters. For a time, it also boasted the largest hotels in the world such as the Grand Union Hotel as shown in the stereoview where congressman, senators and bankers gathered, The United States Hotel where the likes of Vanderbilts, Goulds and Rockfellers held court on the piazza and Congress Hall which hosted the Asters and other old New York scions.
Saratoga Springs and its mineral waters had attracted visitors since the early 1800’s. With concerted efforts on the part of innkeepers and hotel owners, by the 1830’s Saratoga was a fashionable place to go for one’s health but also for "good society" once lectures, entertainment and hops (balls) were added to the fill the days and nights. The 1830’s also saw Saratoga purposely go after gamblers in hopes they would test their skills “at faro and chuck-a-luck in the billiard halls and bowling alleys, and a room was fixed up for roulette.” (Saratoga: Saga of an Impious Era by George Waller).
Before the Civil War, Saratoga had always attracted a lot of southern families who migrated to the cooler north during steamy summer months.Though the Civil War cast a shadow over the place during the war years, as soon as the war ended, the Southern families returned. The New York Times correspondent reported in a June 26, 1865 article that “… I have learned that several families from the South, the avant couriers of a large influx fromregions most war-scarred, have engaged rooms here, with the view of enjoying again a luxury long debarred. This points not only to peace, but fraternity. The land longs for the latter, to confirm and complete the former.Both established, and the cup of the people’s joy is full.” This information came from an article titled - Where Romance and History Meet -Saratoga Springs: Grand and will accept PAYPAL. Items will be shipped first class mail usually next day after payment of Paypal, packaging and mail $2.99. I will combine shipping 1 to 3 views $2.99, 3 to 6 views $5.35 and over 6 no additional postage or shipping charge.
I will ship internationally, payment must be in US funds, Paypal. I will ship world wide International first Class Mail 1 stereoview for $11.55 and will combine ship. This increase is due to the new postal service rates.
BAKER & RECORD SARATOGA SPRINGS NY OFFICE OF GRAND UNION HOTEL STEREOVIEW:
$12.95