Card with girls in bright bathing costumes on the shore, location unknown, undated

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Ephemera - Trade cards

GUSN

GUSN-190015

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Description

The postcard depicts two young women in brightly colored, sleeveless, bathing costumes at the shore. One woman is lounging in the surf and the other looks through a spyglass toward a sailboat in the waves. The beach is littered with shells and sea gulls fly over the water. On the postcard's verso is pasted a small photograph of two girls and a woman kneeling in the surf, wearing bathing costumes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bathing beaches
bathing costumes
shores (landforms)
postcards

Physical Descrption

1 postcard

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Date of Acquisition

1925-05-01

Reference Code

EP001.TMP.017

Acqusition Type

Gift

Record Details

Material Type

postcards

Subjects

Shell
Gulls

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 121

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Ephemera - Trade cards

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