Why go south when it's so warm in Atlantic City say these visitors frolicking on the beach as temperatures soared to near-summer heights
Photograph
Why go south when it's so warm in Atlantic City say these visitors frolicking on the beach as temperatures soared to near-summer heights
January 26, 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/8 × 8 5/8 in. (16.2 × 21.9 cm)
Paper: 7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (18 × 23 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0082.0439
Inscriptions Printed in image on recto, TC: ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- 1/26/50: Why go south when it's so \ warm in Atlantic City say these visitors frolicking on the beach as \ temperatures soared to near-summer heights. Visiting conventioneers \ Walt Gilliam (left) and Ed Johnson, both of Baltimore, toss Alice \ Beverian, Philadelphia model, into warm surf. (Acme Telephoto). \ It was warmest Jan. 26 recorded here since 1878.
Printed on applied label attached at verso: Note: This mermaid is likely to suffer a badly \ banged hull if those jerks actually toss her into \ a good inch of water.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 9:10 \ pm \ 1/26
Printed on applied label attached at verso: Note: This mermaid is likely to suffer a badly \ banged hull if those jerks actually toss her into \ a good inch of water.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: 9:10 \ pm \ 1/26
