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.

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.

Surf Fishing Asbury Park New Jersey postcard

Surf Fishing, Asbury Park, New Jersey postcard. Albertype Co.

Don't snag any swimmers, you fishers!  Move on down the beach, please...

Human Pyramid on the Beach at Asbury Park New Jersey postcard

Human Pyramid at Asbury Park, New Jersey postcard, postmarked 1909

Soaking up the rays got you bored? Gentlemen, please flex your muscles for the human pyramid...

Need Some Beach Time... Asbury Park, New Jersey postcard

Beach Crowd, Asbury Park, New Jersey, Albertype Co publisher.

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Time to head for the beach.... don't forget sun block, hat, sunglasses, and plenty of fresh water.