From Chatterbox, 1902.

From the University of California Southern Branch yearbook of 1950.

From The Five Senses by Angela Mary Keyes and illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1911.

From Le Vocabulaire par la Méthode Naturelle Séri 1 by Les Frères du Sacre-Coeur, 1900.

From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.

From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.

"Sea bathing has become the king of all the dry sports."  From High Society: Hints on How to Attain, Relish, and Survive It by Fish, 1915.

If you take night walks at the beach (highly recommended and highly spooky!), this sort of mysteriousness is not at all uncommon.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1971.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.

"Beach bathing," from The Sketch, 1901.

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