Beauty on the Beach Black Children Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Beauty on the Beach Black Children Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

If you should ever wish to paddle in the sea, won't you make a splash with me?

From Raphael Tuck & Sons, Happy Little Coons, Series V, a set of 6 postcards, issued 1907. Find the full set at TuckDB  - or simply read the posts below.

Just As The Sun Goes Down Black Children on Beach Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Just As The Sun Goes Down Black Children on Beach Artist H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Have I told you how much fun I had with you today? Let's do this again tomorrow.

Lost! Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Lost! Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Children lost on the sands. How come whenever we turn towards the sea - and turn our backs on the beach - we lose track of where we are and who we are meant to be with?  

Lost!   Waaaaaaaaaa!  

Anyone seen a lifeguard?

Buried Treasure Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Buried Treasure Black Children on Beach Series H Sandford Tuck postcard series

Black children making living sand castles on the beach. Art by H Dix Sandford.

One of a set of 6 postcards in Raphael Tuck & Sons, Happy Little Coons Series V, number 9299.  (I'm cringing at the racial epithet; yet it does provide a glimmer of social history insight to that age, the early 1900s). There series was issued in February 1907. More information at TuckDB

Passive Resistance Grandpa Come Play at the Seaside artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Passive Resistance Grandpa Come Play at the Seaside artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Come on, Gramps! Let's build a sandcastle, paddle in the sea, get an ice cream.... Oh, he says, feigning old age, I'm too old for such things but somehow he manages to allow himself to be swayed and is dragged off for a day of sunburn & sand between the toes.... and the best day he's had in years with ones so young.