A circa 1890 postcard.
Maybe Santa Monica, Long Beach or Hermosa California.
The rope was called a life line. The earliest device to try to prevent drownings, which were epidemic. With those heavy, full cover, bathing suits I'm sure it was a literally a lifesaver.
9,000 drownings in the US in 1910. In those early days the beach and getting in the water was a very popular summer vacation but getting naked was not cool.
Duke Kahanamoku gave his surfboard to the Long Beach lifeguards when he was on his tour in 1907 and the Life Guards started their quiver.
This postcard is a photograph printed in dark sepia. It's a good example of a limited pallet. De LeCroix's black and burnt umber. Winslow Homer's paintings were popular at the time, around 1890, and this resembles his composition and subject.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Antique Postcard Ocean Bathers
A circa 1890 postcard.
Maybe Santa Monica, Long Beach or Hermosa California.
The rope was called a life line. The earliest device to try to prevent drownings, which were epidemic. With those heavy, full cover, bathing suits I'm sure it was a literally a lifesaver.
9,000 drownings in the US in 1910. In those early days the beach and getting in the water was a very popular summer vacation but getting naked was not cool.
Duke Kahanamoku gave his surfboard to the Long Beach lifeguards when he was on his tour in 1907 and the Life Guards started their quiver.
This postcard is a photograph printed in dark sepia. It's a good example of a limited pallet. De LeCroix's black and burnt umber. Winslow Homer's paintings were popular at the time, around 1890, and this resembles his composition and subject.
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