[Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, Calif.] – Historic Print
![[Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, Calif.], 1925 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9e7d4c16fc51-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures [Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, Calif.] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Bathing Girl Parade, Crystal Pier, Calif.]
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This wide panoramic print, nearly four feet long, shows a parade of bathing beauties on the boardwalk at Crystal Pier in California. The copyright deposit record shows it was registered in June 1925 by M. F. Weaver, whose address was in Los Angeles. In the mid-1920s, bathing beauty contests and parades drew large crowds to Southern California's seaside resorts, and the pier was a popular place for such events. The print's format and the staged, group arrangement of the women show how photographers used panoramic views to capture both the spectacle and the crowds watching it.
| Created / published | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9.5 x 46.5 in. |
| Genre | Group portraits.Portrait photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | J270284 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; June 28, 1925. Copyright claimant's address: L[os] A[ngeles]. No. 5074. Title derived from copyright deposit records. |
| Subjects | Bathing suits. Bathing beauties. Beauty contests.United States--California. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,267 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-196210 |
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