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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Josie Shaw leading a group of women through drills on the beach near Rincon Point. She stands nearest to the camera, left-of-center, with her back to the camera. Several women don bathing suits as they stand spaced out in a row across the width of the beach facing towards the camera and Josie. The beach extends beyond them, curving to the left as it approaches the horizon. The ocean is at left and follows the arc of the shoreline towards the horizon. A road lined with utility poles runs parallel to the beach as it approaches the horizon. Low mountains rise along the far side of the road. Text from negative sleeve: 832. Rincon, Above Ventura, Calif. About 1924. L to R: Mrs Culp. Edith Shaw. Mertie Whitaker. Zetta Witherby. Josie Shaw. Agnes Whitaker. 2 pictures of Josie Shaw drilling the girls on the sand. On the way home Mertie Whitaker and Zetta Witherby stop at a rest room. 4 negatives
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