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Title
Group of bathers posing in the ocean in Long Beach, ca.1900
Creator
Bacon, Shirley V
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
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 of bathers posing in the ocean in Long Beach, ca.1900. About eleven men and women can be seen at center knee-deep in the ocean. Some of the men are holding up the women's feet, while a man can be seen on top of another man's shoulders. A man at right is holding a woman in his arms, while a woman is bending over the woman's head. A few other bathers can be seen in the ocean in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5844
USC-0-1-1-5952 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44976
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5844
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44976.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Los Angeles County--Long Beach--General views--Beach scenes
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles
USA
Source
1-32-120 [Microfiche number]
44976 [Accession number]
CHS-44976 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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