Long Beach CA Bathing Beauties Swimmers Pose 1925 - Original Photo

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View Long Beach CA Bathing Beauties Swimmers Pose 1925 - Original Photo with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Back, upper center (black ink): “A bunch of bathing beauties. Margaret Elliot is the girl.”. Surface gloss, developing-out paper tone, and slight deckle edge indicate an amateur Type 1 print made contemporaneously circa 1925. An original 4.5x2.5" antique photo from a collection of photos from a family that lived in Nebraska and Southern California during the 1920s-1930s. They also took vacations throughout the U.S. This is likely a one of a kind photo. Professionally packaged in a rigid mailer for safe delivery. Photo Overview A lively lineup of thirteen family and friends in matching wool one-piece swimsuits strikes a jaunty hands-on-hips pose along a wooden pier at a rustic salt-water plunge in Long Beach, California, summer 1925; little Margaret Elliot stands proudly near center while two younger children peek from the sidelines, eucalyptus groves and a simple bath-house shed completing this classic Southern California beach scene. During the 1920s Long Beach promoted itself as the “Atlantic City of the West,” attracting crowds to its famous Pike amusement zone and municipally-owned salt-water plunge—the largest heated salt pool in the world at the time. Candid family snapshots from this era rarely survive, and images that document early swimsuits and the social shift toward mixed-gender recreation are highly collectible—snag this one-of-a-kind glimpse of Golden State beach culture before someone else dives in! Text Present Back, upper center (black ink): “A bunch of bathing beauties. Margaret Elliot is the girl.” Back, center (blue ink): “Long Beach 1925” Back, lower left (blue ink): “1925” Back, faint purple stamp upper left: “18” Print analysis: Small 4.5 × 2.5 in snapshot on single-weight silver-gelatin paper with period handwriting; no later publication or wire stamps present. Surface gloss, developing-out paper tone, and slight deckle edge indicate an amateur Type 1 print made contemporaneously circa 1925. Condition : In fair to good vintage condition. Rear side contains remnants from being glued in an album. Please see scans of the image we have provided for the most accurate and complete state of the photo. Category: Collectibles › Photographic Images › Photographs.