Days Gone By

Two women at the beach in South Australia, 1953.

Source: State Library of South Australia

Murphy, Unidentified man shows his surfboard to three young women - Pensacola, Florida, 1967.

Source: Florida Memory, Department of Commerce collection

Gerald R. Ford Jr., with His Parents, Half-Brother Tom, Cousin Gardner James, and Several Other Relatives on the Sand at Ottawa Beach, Michigan, 1922.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Hans Wild, An amphibious jeep on the French Riviera, France, June 1947.

Studio pose (enhanced with artwork) of a pair of bathing beauties suiting up at the seaside. USA, 1896.

Playwright Eugene O’Neill and his wife Carlotta Monterey in swimsuits at the beach. USA, August 1938.

Frank William Micklethwaite, Bathing beauties, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, ca. 1909.

Source: Library and Archives Canada

Nina Leen, A California family relaxing on their lawn furniture, California, USA, October 1945.

Toni Frissell for Harper’s Bazaar, January 1950.

Source: Library of Congress

A war correspondent lighting a cigarette for his date. Photograph by Jack Wilkes. Chungking, China, October 1945.