Bathing Girl Parade, Seal Beach, Cal. – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Bathing Girl Parade, Seal Beach, Cal. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bathing Girl Parade, Seal Beach, Cal.
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A long panoramic print, 42 inches wide, records a parade of women in bathing suits at Seal Beach, California, around 1917. The photographer, M. F. Weaver, registered the image for copyright that August from a Los Angeles address, which suggests it was made for sale as a souvenir or postcard-style item. By the late 1910s, southern California beach towns were promoting the seaside as a fashionable pastime, and such parades drew crowds and newspaper attention. The wool suits and stockings visible in pictures like this show how much swimwear has changed since then.
| Created / published | c1917. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 42 in. |
| Genre | Group portraits.Portrait photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | J234983 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; August 16, 1917. Copyright claimant's address: 217-520 S. B'dw'y, L[os] A[ngeles], Cal. No. 663. |
| Subjects | Bathing beauties. Bathing suits.United States--California--Seal Beach. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,549 × 691 px · prints to 12 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-208811 |
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