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Atlantic Coast, America 1907 HK0710-34BS Costume Blue, yellow, red, pink, white and black bathing dress shortsleeve and bathing dress sleeveless, with hose, hats and one cape. T. Cleavage. Actions Hamilton King (1871-1952) becomes one of American's most popular illustrators in the early decades of the 20th century and his illustrations of pretty girls acquire such a distinctive style that they come to be called "Hamilton King Girls." This collection of bathing beauties from a 1907 postcard series depicts a variety of bathing dress styles of the time. Each gal in the collection also showcases one of the East Coast's numerious ocean resorts, in including: "Atlantic City Girl," (1), "Narragansett Pier Girl," (2), "Cape May Girl, " (3), "Manhattan Beach Girl" (4), "Ocean Grove Girl" (5), "Bar Harbor Girl" (6), "Asbury Park Girl" (7), "Larchmont Girl" (8), "Palm Beach Girl" (9), "Newport Girl (10), "Long Branch Girl" (11), and "Coney Island Girl" (12). The concentration of these resorts from Rhode Island south through Long Island, New Youk and down the New Jersey short to Cape May is indicitative of the concentration of these beach locales at this time, with only Palm Beach in Florida attached far to the south. Commentary Source Hamilton King, illustrator, postcard reproduction of charcoal and pastel illustrations, T. J. Wilcox publishing, 1907. Size approximately 5.5x3.25 inches with rounded corners on heavy paper. Scans collected ebay stores antiquepostcards, dbflyer_2000, shadesofthepast1, and greatescape, 2006. The good news is that we are able to present these images, which have had damage touched out; the downside is that that the resultant scans contain JPG artifacts that mar their beauty. Perhaps someday we will be able to replace these with high resolution scans of original images. 12 pictures. |
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