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[Postcard of Lake View Park]

Description: Postcard of Lakeview Park in Glen Rose, Texas. The image shows a crowd of people swimming and using a diving board.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of San Solomon Swimming Pool]

Description: Postcard of San Solomon Swimming Pool in Balmorhea, Texas. Several people gather around the pool, some taking turns on the diving board. Tents appear in the distance.
Date: unknown
Creator: Howard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Two young women with bob haircuts sitting on a driftwood log]

Description: Postcard image of two young women with bob haircuts sitting on a driftwood log in front of an ocean backdrop. Women are wearing dark swimsuits with a white "M" on the chest. Photo taken at Murdoch's Bath House in Galveston. Residue of back of photo suggests it was removed from a scrapbook (see 1998.025.043)
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend Museum

[Garden Terrace of the Jack Tar Orange House Hotel]

Description: Photographic postcard of the "Garden Terrace at the Jack Tar Orange House [Hotel] in Orange, Texas" Their slogan on the back of the card reads, "Prepare to be Pampered" The photo shows the swimming pool area.
Date: unknown
Partner: Heritage House Museum

[Postcard of Government Bath in Banff, Alberta]

Description: Postcard of a photograph of a group of people swimming in a rectangular pool inside of a courtyard. Mountains can be seen beyond the courtyard walls. Text at the bottom of the postcard identifies the pool as a government bath in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The other side of the postcard is blank except for postcard markings.
Date: unknown
Creator: Harmon, Byron
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[The Inn of the Six Flags]

Description: Postcard of the exterior of the inn of the Six Flags, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. There are buildings around a swimming pool in the back.
Date: unknown
Partner: Old City Park

[Postcard of the Natatorium Hotel]

Description: Postcard of the Natatorium Hotel in Waco, a hot well water bath house. Though the building is vibrantly colored with red-brown bricks and a green roof, the street below, along with two pedestrians, are in black and white.
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard to Mayme Collins from Galveston, Texas]

Description: Postcard addressed to Mayme Collins in Central City, Nebraska from Harry Bahl in Galveston, Texas; the picture on the card is entitled "Down she goes" and is a "Souvenir of Galveston Beach" and shows a girl diving into a body of water while wearing a dress. The note on the back reads, in part: "Be good and careful."
Date: August 5, 1907
Creator: Bahl, John Philip Herlin
Partner: Private Collection of Margay Welch

[Postcard of Girl Diving]

Description: Postcard of a girl in a yellow dress diving into water. Text on the front of the postcard says: "Down she goes, Galveston Texas." Handwritten message on the back of the postcard expresses Sam Rayburn's desire for Lou Rayburn to be with him on his trip.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Rayburn, Sam
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

Chase Field Swimming Pool

Description: Postcard of the "Swimming Pool, Chase Field, Beeville, Texas" as printed at the bottom of the card. On June 1, 1943, Chase Field was commissioned as a Naval Air Auxiliary Station to train naval aviators during World War II. The base was named for Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Brown Chase, who went down in the Pacific on a training flight in 1925. After the war, Chase Field was closed until 1953, when it was reopened during the Korean War to help with the over-crowding at NAS Corpus Christi. In July 1968, Ch… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Bee County Historical Commission

[Sulphur Falls]

Description: Postcard of Suphur Falls in Glen Rose, Texas. The image is a photograph of four people in a pool surrounded by a fence. There is a building in the background on the left side of the image. The correspondence on the back is addressed to "Mrs. [C.]M. Backloupe" and speaks about future travel plans and the mosquitos in the area.
Date: August 16, 1917
Partner: Texas Medical Association

[Postcard of "The Old Swimming Hole"]

Description: Postcard of a local swimming hole near Hico, Texas. The swimming hole is surrounded by large trees that branches lean over into the water. It is addressed to Mrs. S. W. Ellis of Waco, Texas.
Date: August 1912
Creator: Wiseman
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of Waco Natatorium Pool]

Description: Postcard of an indoor pool with people in and around the water. A typed caption says "Natatorium Pool, one of the largest and best in the South, Waco, Texas." Another note on the back of the photo says, "This is certainly a swell place to go in bathing as Waco has no beach. Tuesdays and Thursday nights are for Ladies and Escorts and you can take a girl and go there and have the best time of your life."
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Natatorium Pool]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of a large indoor swimming pool with four people swimming, two men standing on the left and right sides, two people using gym rings and one person sitting in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Natatorium Pool, one of the largest and best in the south, Waco, Texas."
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of the Fontainebleau, Miami, Florida, November 22, 1955]

Description: Postcard of the Fontainebleau in Miami, Florida. The photo shows a the Fontainebleau's pool with guests swimming and laying on lounge chairs around it. Behind them is the Fontainebleau itself, a large curved building in the international architecture style. There are flagpoles in front of the building with the Australian, Colombian, American, and other flags flying. Behind the Fontainebleau is a blue sky with a few clouds.
Date: November 22, 1955
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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