An English bathing beauty, ca. 1920.

An English bathing beauty, ca. 1920.

Rita Hayworth in “Lady from Shanghai” (1948).

Rita Hayworth in “Lady from Shanghai” (1948).

An English bathing beauty, 1920.

An English bathing beauty, 1920.

Bill Ray, A party at a swinging singles apartment complex, Los Angeles, California, 1966.

Bill Ray, A party at a swinging singles apartment complex, Los Angeles, California, 1966.

Dmitri Kessel, Cecil Aubry, June 1949.

Dmitri Kessel, Cecil Aubry, June 1949.

Toni Frissell, Dovima in a bikini, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1946.
Source: Library of Congress

Toni Frissell, Dovima in a bikini, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1946.

Source: Library of Congress

Actress Jane Wyman sitting in a lounge chair on a California beach, August 1935.
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Actress Jane Wyman sitting in a lounge chair on a California beach, August 1935.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983) stands on tiptoes on the prow of a  motorboat while Teddy the dog sits with his paws on the steering wheel  in a still from director Clarence G Badger’s film “Teddy at the  Throttle” (1917).

Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983) stands on tiptoes on the prow of a motorboat while Teddy the dog sits with his paws on the steering wheel in a still from director Clarence G Badger’s film “Teddy at the Throttle” (1917).

Photograph by David E. Scherman, 1941.

Photograph by David E. Scherman, 1941.

Photograph by David E. Scherman, 1941.

Photograph by David E. Scherman, 1941.