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Prize winners, bathing girls revue, Galveston, Texas

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Prize winners, bathing girls revue, Galveston, Texas

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Photograph shows twelve young women dressed in a variety of costumes standig on the beach.
Copyright 1930 by Maurer, Galveston, Texas.

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01/01/1929

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Maurer, Joseph M., 1876-1953, photographer

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Galveston (Tex.), 29.30139, -94.79778

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