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Bathing Beauty Slaying Giant Fish

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Description: Bathing suit model posing standing in a rowboat, landing an eight-foot plastic Musky (Muskellunge).
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New Rubber Bathing Costume

Date: 01 31 1934
Description: Miss Helen King modeling a new rubber bathing costume, holding a beach ball. This was the current fashion of the day and was made by U.S. Rubber Co.
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Helen King in New Rubber Bathing Suit

Date: 01 31 1934
Description: 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 inflat...
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Bathing Beauties

Date: 06 10 1932
Description: Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.)
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Bathing Beauties

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Eleven Fanchon & Marco show girls model bathing suits at Heller's, 205 State Street.
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Sun Dip

Date: 07 08 1988
Description: Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break.
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Brandel Women and Friend in Bathing Suits

Date: 1925
Description: Mary Brandel, her mother, and a friend pose together wearing bathing suits. Trees and a lake are behind them, and the shadow of the photographer can be see...
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Circus Performers with Laundry

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Description: Five women circus performers in full costume pose behind a clothesline upon which bras, underwear, gloves and socks hang to dry.

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