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Title
Group portrait of men and women in bathing clothes, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society Collection at Stanford
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a group portrait of men and women in bathing clothes, ca.1900. The women wear their hear up in buns and patterned stockings underneath their bathing clothes, which resemble short dresses. The men stand behind the women in a row. They wear darkly-colored suits which resemble tanks tops on top. They stand against a photographic backdrop depicting clouds above an ocean.
Photoprint reads: "Furnished W.W.R. by Hugh H. Evans, V.P. and manager of Western Federal Savings and Loan Association. 5-25-53".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 17 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12929
USC-0-1-1-13081 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-40292
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12929
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-40292.jpg
Subject
Bathing suits
Clothing and dress
Costume--Bathing--Women
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
1- [Microfiche number]
40292 [Accession number]
CHS-40292 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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