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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Helen King in New Rubber Bathing Suit
January 31, 1934
Helen King, side view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Co. She is also wearing a bathing cap and sandals, and is holding an inflatable pool toy. A beach ball is on the floo...
Miss King in Rubber Bathing Costume
January 31, 1934
Helen King, rear view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Company.
Bathing Beauties
June 10, 1932
Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.)
Bathing Beauties
June 17, 1932
Eleven Fanchon & Marco show girls model bathing suits at Heller's, 205 State Street.
Bathing Beauties
June 17, 1932
Three Fanchon & Marco showgirls model bathing suits at Heller's, 205 State Street.
Beauty Shop
November 22, 1934
Hair stylists wearing the popular Marcel wave hairstyle create new looks for customers at the Marcel Comfy Shoppe, 1917 Winnebago Street near Schenk's Corners.
