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Bathers and Changing Huts

East Hampton Beach, New York
c. 1880 HB188010

Costume
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Actions
   A special and popular area of the beach at East Hampton is populated by changing huts, sun parasols and bathers (1).

Commentary
   East Hampton Beach is out near the easternmost end of Long Island. This view looks to the north and east out toward the Atlantic Ocean.

Source
   John Ferguson Weir, "Beach at East Hampton," collection of Anne Adler Rogin. Date uncertain and may be between 1875 and 1880. Scanned from Ronald G. Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting, 1820-1920, A New York Graphic Society Book, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1985. 1 picture.
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