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Digital ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) det 4a27443 hdl.loc.gov/... Reproduction Number: LC-D418-30966 (b glass neg.) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Walter Russell (American painter, 1871-1963) At the Seashore 1898
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Edmund Charles Tarbell (American Impressionist, 1862–1938) Girl with a Sailboat
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Bathing suits at Lord & Taylor's 1879 . The Daily Graphic, New York June 141879. From SeeSaw seesaw.typepad.co...
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ALICE AUSTEN Bathing Suits 1893 from Alice Austen House www.aliceausten.org CA. 1893
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Alice Austen. Beach circa 1893 from Alice Austen House www.aliceausten.org
ice cream. Off topic, somewhat. But doesn't it look divine? www.flickr.com/...
by Mitch Rees
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Popular photography can properly be said to have started 120 years ago with the introduction of the Kodak camera, the invention of an American, George Eastman (1854-1932). It was a simple, leather-covered wooden box – small and light enough to be held in the hands. Taking a photograph with the Kodak was very easy, requiring only three simple actions; turning the key (to wind on the film); pulling the string (to set the shutter); and pressing the button (to take the photograph). There wasn’t even
Martha Walter (American Impressionist, 1875–1976) La Plage. Philadelphian Martha Walter studied at the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, now The University of the Arts College of Art and Design. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, she studied with William Merritt Chase. For more see bjws.blogspot.com...
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Sunset August 1905 A mother walks her baby boy up off the beach; in the background, happy bathers cavort in the surf. The boy is carrying a nice stalk of dead kelp. Artist: Maynard Dixon
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Martin Munkacsi - Lucile Brokaw, Harper’s Bazaar, December 1933. Many years ago I owned a print of this. Maybe the only original print. I bought it from the artist's daughter, Joan, who was a friend. Some years later I sold it back to her. I still feel connected to it.
"Come in, the Water is Fine," Sheridan Beach, Flint Lake Valparaiso, Indiana 1910 Postcard
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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth. The great Coney Island water carnival. Remarkable head-foremost dives from enormous heights into shallow depths of water, together with thrilling and daring aquatic and sub-aqueous feats of every description. Promotional poster for Barnum & Bailey showing performers diving and clowns in the ocean at Coney Island, New York. The Strobridge Lithographic Co., Cincinnati & New York, 1898.
Mathews & Bulger presenting the rag time opera, By the Sad Sea Waves. Direction of Dunne & Ryley. "A message from the Mikado". Promotional poster for the theater play, copyright by the Strobridge Lithographing Co., Cincinnati & New York, 1898.
'THE 'TROCIOUS TWINS AT THE SEA' B. and N. Parker's 1926 story contains numerous full-page illustrations, and is bound in colour picture boards.
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Looking for a place to stash some art supplies? Sewing supplies? Or anything? Or looking for a great gift that you can give as is, or fill with whatever small things you like. We love these as sewing boxes, but anything goes. Here it is. 6 x8 x 1/12 Vermont-made wooden box. Sliding lid features charming reprint of a vintage post card from the Cowan Ephemera Collections. $18
Frank Newbould's 1930 bathers on the beach, a paraphrase on Renoir's, The Picnic
Ruth Eastman, illustrator. Judge magazine 1928
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Ruth Eastman, illustrator. Judge Magazine 1926
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La Vie Parisienne June 28, 1919 Cover by Herouard
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I'm All Alone - Midland Beach, Staten Island [(lady in early bathing costume poised to dive into water,
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Edward Penfield, Harper’s August. Tom Sawyer Detective, 1896
Watching the Bathers. Postcard circa 1909. Cowan Ephemera Collections Look in the water. All the figures there are hand drawn by the person who sent the card. That’s hilarious! The hand written message says: (I don’t see many in though do you (they forgot to put bathers in so I had to help them out) Can you find us? We are having a great time
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Postcard. Two girls at the beach. 1910 Cowan Ephemera Collections.
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Lee Krasner at the beach circa 1945, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Fetching pins…
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Alisa Coburn What a lot of weight to swim in, scary really.
SmallEquals I know. At least they weren't wearing corsets. Also...I think that in those days bathing was about standing in the water...not really swimming as we know it. not that people didn't swim..obviously they did. but the seaside bathing resorts and bathing culture was not athletic.