Thursday, February 25, 2010

Woman in bathing suit exiting from bathing machine

This is scanned image from period postcard, with no mention of the publisher’s name or details, date, etc., but this card has a US postmark of August, 1912. The words ‘Don't Be Afraid’ is printed as can be seen on the image. It shows a man in bathing suit, and a woman wearing bathing suit exiting from a bathing machine. The bathing machine was a device popular in the 18th and 19th centuries and it allowed people to change out of their usual clothes, change into swimwear and then wade in the ocean at beaches. Bathing machines were roofed and walled wooden carts rolled into the sea. Some had solid wooden walls; others had canvas walls over a wooden frame.

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