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Crowded lakeside beach with swimmers and pavilion, panoramic photograph – Vintage Photo Print

Crowded lakeside beach with swimmers and pavilion, panoramic photograph — historic photograph
Crowded lakeside beach with swimmers and pavilion, panoramic photograph. Historic photograph from the Beaches & Waterways collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Crowded lakeside beach with swimmers and pavilion, panoramic photograph comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Crowded lakeside beach with swimmers and pavilion, panoramic photograph

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A crowded lakeside beach stretches across this panoramic view, with swimmers wading near the shore and a pavilion standing at the water's edge. Panoramic views like this were popular in the early twentieth century, when photographers used wide-format cameras or stitched exposures to capture the full sweep of resort crowds. Beaches on inland lakes drew families and day-trippers by rail and steamer, so scenes like this one record a leisure culture built around fresh-water swimming. Look closely at the dress, bathing attire and the layout of the pavilion to read how people used the shoreline.

Original scan3,885 × 680 px · prints to 13 × 2 in at 300 dpi
Reference5987_Calhoun_Beach_Minneapol_1915.tif-6a06831u

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