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A “Sensation Press” reporter stands on the shore near “Gray Gables,” Grover Cleveland’s summer home at Cape Cod, pointing to a sea serpent labeled “3d Term Twaddle.” Caption: The latest and most improbable feat of the sensation-newspaper man’s imagination.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-07-31
William McKinley sits on the porch of a house labeled “Presidential Hopes,” flying a banner that states “The Foreigner Pays the Tax,” built on stilts on a sandy beach. Below, a rising tide labeled “Business Revival” has washed away the house and McKinley runs for safety. Caption: He built his house on a sand-heap, and the rising tide is making short work of it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-26
A mermaid dives into the water at a beach and several men swim after her.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-08-24
Print shows a hotel proprietor standing on the sea shore telling a sea serpent to go away before the summer tourists arrive. The serpent, wearing a hat, tells the man that it is about to shed its skin, which could be advertised as a “disrobing act.” Caption: Summer-Hotel Proprietor No; go away! Sea-serpents are out of date as attractions. / Sea-Serpent But I am just about to shed my skin; – couldn’t you advertise me as doing a disrobing act?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-06-07
A beautiful young woman stands on the shore at a beach, wearing a swimsuit with an American flag motif.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-07-04
An attractive young woman wearing a green swimsuit sits on a beach where a lobster has come to the surface with a banjo to serenade her.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-06-20
A young man, in late winter, huddles over a small fire on a beach while a young woman swims offshore.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-02-21
Uncle Sam welcomes several heads of state labeled “Pan-Slavism, Nihilism, Socialism, Pauperism, Communism [represented by Marianne], Fenianism, Mormonism [wearing a fez], [and] Spain” to a swim at Coney Island. They have emerged from bathhouses labeled “Austria, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, [and] England” and stand in the water. Caption: Why shouldn’t the wearied monarchs of Europe enjoy a plunge in our republican waters?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-07-19
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
Print shows Chester Alan Arthur sitting on a chair at a beach on the seashore, he is perspiring heavily and using a fan labeled “Stalwart Method” to cool himself, as the sun, labeled “Disunion-of-the-Republican-Party,” sets. As it sets the sun gives off rays labeled “Stalwarts, Independents, Anti-Monopolists, Half Breeds, Tariff Reformer, [and] Civil Service Reformer”.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-07-05
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
James Gillespie Blaine, dressed like a farmer with a patch labeled “Vindication” on his pants, stands next to John Alexander Logan who is dressed as a girl. They are on a beach looking out to sea, watching the waves labeled “Revolt, Revolt in Connecticut, Iowa Doubtful, Ohio Uncertain, Michigan Doubtful,” and “Wisconsin, N. Jersey, [and] Indiana” are going “Democratic.” Blaine is holding a rope attached to an anchor labeled “To Windward.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-01
Whitelaw Reid, dressed as a woman holding a folding fan labeled “Tribune Windiphone,” stands on a beach with John Kelly who is wearing a swimsuit and bonnet. At his feet is a dead fish labeled “Magnetism.” In the background is a banner that states “Tammany Bathing Ground.” Caption: He (John Kelly) will again be drawn into the vortex of politics; and it is his nature to lead and not to follow. –New York Tribune.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-07-29
On the left, a beautiful young woman wearing a beach robe enters a bathhouse to change. On the right, she emerges from the bathhouse fashionably dressed in an outfit that may be more revealing than her beach clothing, and carrying a parasol.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-09-10
President Wilson is a chef roasting hot dogs labeled “Congress” on a grill labeled “Washington in Summer” at a beach, with bathing house and lighthouse in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-07-16
President Roosevelt forwards the deed for a piece of property in Oyster Bay, where he plans to build a boathouse, bathhouse, and dock. He offers again to pay Anna Roosevelt Cowles and William Sheffield Cowles for the space, and updates her on the people who are visiting.
1906-08-15
Vignettes show how it might look if the summer were as cold as spring. In the central image, bathers at the seashore wear fur clothing and must step over steam-pipes for heating the surf. Surrounding images show a couple in the midst of a proposal being interrupted by walruses, patrons enjoying hot-sauce drinks “At the Fizz Fountain,” people bundled up on the resort porch happy to be free of mosquitoes which “die at a temperature of 14° or less,” and a guest getting a hot water bottle delivered to his room.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-06-05
Vignettes show messages sent from various cities to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, along with the scenic postcard views each is requesting: a mountain for Chicago, caves in Philadelphia (where the sun is too bright), a river connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, a fountain of beer for Milwaukee, a sun in Pittsburgh (where the smog is too thick for the natural sun to penetrate), a “Palm Beach” oasis for the Eskimos, and a “natural bridge” crossing the East River into Brooklyn, New York. Caption: His gift of a lake to Princeton suggests other deficiencies of nature which Carnegie may supply.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-01-30
An attractive young woman and an old, bald man dance the Grizzly Bear dance on the shore of a beach next to lobsters, crabs, and fish, as well as other beach goers in the background. Caption: Passé in the ballroom, but a novelty on the beach.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-10
Grace Roosevelt, aged about three years, stands on a beach.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914
Theodore Roosevelt, III at age 1 year and 2 months on the beach at Southampton, New York. A note below the photograph indicates it was published as the entire front page of the rotogravure section of the New York Sun.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1915-08
Theodore Roosevelt III at 1 year and 2 months, photographed at the beach holding on to what appears to be the pole of a beach umbrella.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1915-08