“As the daughter of a photographer, I grew up in the darkroom watching my dad develop and print photographs. He was Al Gold, the first official photographer of Atlantic City. 

It’s from this vantage point that I grew to love photographs, especially the hunt for visual images to highlight my many historical projects, like the former Atlantic City Historical Museum on Garden Pier, and the current Atlantic City Experience in the lobby of Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall that includes images from the John W. Mosley Photograph Collection. 

It’s been my pleasure to often collaborate with the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University Libraries, particularly the archives of John W. Mosley and his photographs of the segregated beach in Atlantic City, known as Chicken Bone Beach that he so elegantly captured.
 
The honor of participating in the new Charles Library and its current exhibit on African Americans of Atlantic City gave me the opportunity to display prints not only from my personal photo collection of everyday images in the lives of the city’s Black community, but my rare collection of early portrait photos taken in the myriad of studies that dotted the Boardwalk and Atlantic Avenue. These portrait photos run the gamut from a tintype to a cabinet card and photo postcards.” 
—Vicki Gold Levi