“Happy and beautiful, Atlantic City, N.J.,” 1903.
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Photo possibly taken by B.W. Kilburn, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
(sorry, but that is possibly the ugliest garment I’ve ever seen) To match some of the frightening images and stories I’ve seen over the last few days.
I know, women really didn’t have good choices for swimming for another decade or so. (I wonder what it was like to walk on sand in those tights.) But she does look like she feels beautiful. I was thinking of all the people who have been happy along that shoreline and now large parts of it are just crushed.