Long Beach, California, Bathing Beauty Parade, 1927 – Antique Wall Art
(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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Long Beach, California, Bathing Beauty Parade, 1927 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Long Beach, California, Bathing Beauty Parade, 1927
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Long Beach, California, hosted this 1927 bathing beauty parade, a panoramic group portrait of women posed in swimsuits of the period. The print is a long 9-by-46.5-inch gelatin silver image, a format that let the photographer fit an entire line of contestants into a single frame. Bathing beauty contests were a popular seaside attraction in the 1920s, drawing crowds to beaches as swimwear became more revealing and as Hollywood's glamour shaped public taste. The copyright deposit records the photographer as M. F. Weaver, who filed the image with the U.S. Copyright Office in October 1928.
| Created / published | 1927 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9 x 46.5 in. |
| Genre | Group portraits.Portrait photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | J292962 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; October 26, 1928. Copyright claimant's address: L[os] A[ngeles]. No. 6461-3. |
| Subjects | Bathing suits. Bathing beauties. Beauty contests.United States--California--Long Beach. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,739 × 1,047 px · prints to 16 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199479 |
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