Another entry in my seascape with monsters series.
THIS is going to be happening soon. Coney Island USA.
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, April 16, 1936 (by State Library of Queensland, Australia)
Creator: Unidentified
Location: Queensland; 24.13, 145.65
Description: Caption: Atlantic giant
A coloured drawing of a beach scene with young couples enjoying the sunshine and a young woman in the foreground sitting on the beach with a parasol.Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/
Dancers celebrate 1933 on a Southern California beach
Wesley Morse, Pencil, pen and ink and gouache on stationery, 7.25 x 10.75in.
• How It Seemed To Talk With You Today — Wednesday Night, 1922-23(?)
• To Late (sic) — Thursday Night, 1922-23(?)
Although the majority of the drawings in the collection are stand-alone gags, there are three sets of two-panel sequential pages. This is a splendid example, with Morse cleverly utilizing the tossed life preserver as a unifying visual and story element. Also, There is a poignant undertone here, a sense of longing and loss, present through much of his illustrated correspondence with Avonne.
Woman Descending Stairs by Albert Lynch, ca 1890’s
This panoramic wonder is for sale in this sepia tone or black and white! I would love to hang this in a bathroom. Check out the website for a larger picture and detail.
June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.” National Photo Co.
(Source: forthevintagefashionista)
