Pool lifeguards in 1929

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Description

Informal full-length portrait of Life guards Esther DeWolfe and Arthur Turk Conley wearing bathing suits, posing on the side of a swimming pool in Chicago, Illinois. DeWolfe is sitting in a high lifeguard chair, and Conley is pointing to the left of the camera. Text on a sign on the lifeguard chair reads: Do Not Talk To Lifeguard. Two women, one wearing a bathing suit, are sitting in the background.

Creator

Chicago Daily News, Inc.

Publisher

Chicago Historical Society

Date

1929

Contributor

Swyers, Holly ("Medical Anthropology" class) and Messar, Sonia

Rights

Image courtesy of Chicago History Museum.

Type

Still Image

Format

63 KB
500 x 500 pixels JPEG
Gray

Language

English

Source

DN-0088381, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.

Collection