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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Helen King in New Rubber Bathing Suit
January 31, 1934
Helen King, side view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Co. She is also wearing a bathing cap and sandals, and is holding an inflatable pool toy. A beach ball is on the floo...
Miss King in Rubber Bathing Costume
January 31, 1934
Helen King, rear view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Company.
Bathing Beauties
June 10, 1932
Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.)
Bathing Beauties
June 17, 1932
Eleven Fanchon & Marco show girls model bathing suits at Heller's, 205 State Street.
Bathing Beauties
June 17, 1932
Three Fanchon & Marco showgirls model bathing suits at Heller's, 205 State Street.
Two Fashion Models
March 31, 1933
Jean Ricks and Harry Pike at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union, modeling clothing from Karsten's, for the "Daily Cardinal."
