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Beach Life On a Summer Afternoon

Rockaway Beach, New York
1869 RB186910

Costume
   Bathing dress longsleeved.

   Faces and hands.

Actions
   Some bathe, some sketch, some relax, and some simply watch the others on this Long Island beach (1).

Commentary
   Rockaway Beach lies on the ocean side of Jamaica Bay and is part of what is now Queens, in New York City.

Source
   Ralph Albert Blakelock, "Rockaway Beach, Long Island, NY," 1869, M. and M. Karolick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 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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