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Bathing beaches - New York beauties at Atlantic City carnival – Vintage Print

Bathing beaches - New York beauties at Atlantic City carnival, 1922 Sept. 8. — historic photograph
Bathing beaches - New York beauties at Atlantic City carnival, 1922 Sept. 8.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Bathing beaches - New York beauties at Atlantic City carnival, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Captioned "New York beauties" at an Atlantic City carnival, this September 1922 group portrait shows women posed on the beach in the bathing costumes of the day. It comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the news photographs supplied to newspapers across the country by Bain's New York agency. Atlantic City was then a leading seaside resort, and its boardwalk pageants helped shape the beauty contests that followed, including the Miss America pageant first held there in 1921. Notice the heavy wool suits with their skirts and stockings, which look modest beside later swimwear.

Created / published1922 Sept. 8.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Group portraits 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesGeorge Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsBathing beauties--1920-1930. Bathing suits--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195846

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