Bathing beach beauty contest, 1920, Eliz. Margaret Williams, Eliz. Roache – Vintage Photo 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bathing beach beauty contest, 1920, Eliz. Margaret Williams, Eliz. Roache. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bathing beach beauty contest, 1920, Eliz. Margaret Williams, Eliz. Roache
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Two women, identified in the title as Eliz. Margaret Williams and Eliz. Roache, are the named entrants in this 1920 bathing beach beauty contest. The picture comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial studio that photographed news events and public life in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s and sold the pictures to newspapers and magazines. Beach beauty contests were a popular summer feature of that decade, and their photographs show how public attitudes toward women's leisure and bathing attire were changing. The glass negative shows streaks and surface blemishes from the deterioration of its original coating.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,358 × 4,356 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-231392 |
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