Name/Title
Two-piece Ladies' bathing suit from Sunny Cove Beach, c. 1912Entry/Object ID
1983.35.12Description
Acc. No. 83.35.12
Subject Category: Beaches, Sunny Cove
Date or period: Circa-1912
Object: Bathing suit (female)
Description: Two-piece black & white bathing suit (bloomer type with skirt), made of heavy woolen broadcloth.Full length suit (to gathered knees), with 6 buttons from neck to navel. Bertha collar, gathered sleeves, skirt waistline band and hem are trimmed with white cording. Skirt (detachable) is secured by buttons to the waist of the main suit. Skirt has a white clothing label which states in ink "A. Lowenstein-Box11". The main section of the bathing suit has no clothing label other then an appliqued "A" on the nape of the garment.
Size: 45 inches in length.
History of Object: Ladies bathing suit (circa-1912), from Sunny Cove Beach, 456 Central Avenue, Alameda, Ca. George H. & Bertha Masters, owners and proprietors. Now the present site of Paden School.
Acquired from: Marjorie Fraley
Date: July 23, 1983
