Tangier Housing Development (Shirley, N.Y.)

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "As you look over from Smith's point towards the life saving station and the shore dinner hotel. There were 100 motor and sail boats moored in this charming spot when we saw it."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "One of the surveyors shacks in the early part of the development of Tangier. Picture a bungalow in such a spot as this, within earshot of the rolling billows of the ocean, and almost on the banks of a trout stream leading into Great South Bay."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "This is to be the place where the great steel and concrete bridge is to span Great South Bay and connect with the ocean front. It is to be the first place by which the mainland and Great South Beach can be reached from New York, except by water."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "Face to face with nature. Among oak and pine in a virgin forest 60 miles from the heart of New York; bordering on Great South Bay and the ocean front at Tangier, L.I."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "One of the picturesque roads which wind through the Tangier L.I. estates on the south shore. Some of the roads on Tangier were laid out over 300 years ago and are perfect for motoring."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "Some of the roads on Tangier, L.I., were built over 300 years ago. The Merrick road, on which we are riding, runs through most beautiful woods on Tangier."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "The land of Hiawatha or Minnehaha has no greater beauty than the inlets of Carman's River on Tangier, L.I. One must see it to realize its charms."

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "When the flowing tide comes in on the ocean washed shore of great south beach at Tangier. It is well worth the trip to see it and adds reality to Byron's lines: 'There is a rapture on the lonely shore.'"

Tangier L.I.
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "Where rolls old ocean on the surf washed shore of Great South Beach on Tangier, L.I. This is the first place on Long Island's ocean front to be reached, except by boat, from New York."

[Tangier Bridge]
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "This steel bridge, connecting the ocean with the mainland at Tangier, L.I., is the first place by which Great South Beach can be reached, except by water, from New York City."

[Tangier Railroad Station]
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "This is the proposed station on the Long Island Railroad at Tangier. In the town will be the administrative offices of the Company and it is to cost over $50,000. It will be the best on the Island."

[Tangier Road]
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "Could you imagine a more perfect road for a motor ride than this? The winding sweep, under nature's own arch of luxuriant foliage, for miles on Tangier, south shore, Long Island, less than 60 miles from New York."

[Tangier Sign]
Type: Postcard

The reverse reads: "Do you believe in signs? This one I see on the most beautiful spot on Long Island (south shore). It is of logs of oak, cut on Tangier and some are over 300 years old."

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