Balboa Bathing Parade, 1925 – Vintage Print
(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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Step back in time with Balboa Bathing Parade, 1925, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Balboa Bathing Parade, 1925
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A panoramic gelatin silver print, 50 inches long, shows a line of bathing beauties on Balboa Island in California. M. F. Weaver of Los Angeles registered the photograph for copyright in September 1925, and the deposit copy is preserved with the record. Beach-town parades of this kind were a common publicity device in Southern California during the mid-1920s, when resort promoters used women in bathing suits to draw crowds to the shore. The heavy knitted wool suits of the period cover far more of the body than modern swimwear does.
| Created / published | c1925. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10 x 50 in. |
| Genre | Group portraits.Portrait photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | J278570 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; September 14, 1925. Copyright claimant's address: L[os] A[ngeles], Cal. No. 4100-1. |
| Subjects | Bathing beauties. Bathing suits.United States--California--Balboa Island. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,654 × 1,889 px · prints to 12 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-197231 |
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