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Rockaway Beach, New York c. 1907 PC0L76 Costume Longsleeve white blouse and dress over gray stockings and shoes. Red garter. This is not exactly a bathing dress shortsleeve bloomerless but it is a similar silhouette. L. Top of hose. Actions This sassy lass lifts her bathing dress to show you the top of her hose (1). Commentary A description of this card also comes [probably] from an auction [of a different card' on ebay, "Victorian Bathing Suit Rockaway Beach NY Postcard 1908. Great early postcard showing a woman in Victorian dress bathing swimming at Rockaway Beach NY. The woman in the foreground still has on her blue stockings! Two young girls behind her have the hem of the dresses held up and one still has on her feather trimmed hat. In the background are men in long striped bathing costumes playing beach volleyball." The divided back card has this message, "Dear Anna - the water is fine down here. I was in Bathing for over two hours. Lillian" Source "76.-9," Illustrated Postal Card Co., New York, Leipzig, undivided back postcard, date is estimated to be before 1908. Purchased Riverfront Mall, Dover, Ohio, 2004. Possibly manufactured in Germany and exported to America for specific locations. The Internet auction card {not shown here) is It is addressed to Anna Kubisch in Albany NY and postmarked East Rockaway NY July 8, 1908. 1 picture. |
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