Bathing beach, 6/12/22 – Antique Photo Print
![Bathing beach, 6/12/22, [19]22 June 12. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d1/d1f28b2d9287-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
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bathing beach, 6/12/22. 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 beach, 6/12/22
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Summer bathing at a shoreline or river beach was a popular pastime in the early 1920s, when public swimming areas were expanding across the country and families spent warm weekends in the water. The date of June 12, 1922, places this scene at the start of that season. The glass negative comes from the National Photo Company, a commercial firm that photographed everyday American life during the early twentieth century, and its catalog preserves many such views of leisure and public spaces. The record notes streaks and blemishes from the deterioration of the original coatings, so some marks on the image come from the negative itself.
| Created / published | [19]22 June 12. |
|---|---|
| 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. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. Temp. note: Batch two. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,348 × 4,332 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-235828 |
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