Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Harry Lame and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: | | | | The original language has been maintained, including inconsisten-| | cies in spelling and hyphenation, except as mentioned below. | | | | Changes made to the original text: 'chemise type' changed to | | 'chemise-type' as elsewhere; page 17: closing square bracket | | deleted after 'what an array'; page 65: quote mark inserted | | before footnote anchor [65]. | | | | Footnotes have been moved to directly underneath the paragraph | | or section they refer to. | | | | Texts printed in italics in the original publication have been | | transcribed between underscores, as in _text_; bold-face text is | | represented here between equal signs, as in =text=. Small | | capitals in the original are transcribed as ALL CAPITALS. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 250 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY PAPER 64 WOMEN'S BATHING AND SWIMMING COSTUME IN THE UNITED STATES _Claudia B. Kidwell_ INTRODUCTION 3 CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT 6 BATHING COSTUME 14 SWIMMING COSTUME 24 CONCLUSIONS 32 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON 1968 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402--Price 50 cents (paper cover) [Illustration: Figure 1.--BATHING COSTUME, from _The Delineator_, July 1884. (Smithsonian photo 58466.)] _Claudia B. Kidwell_ _Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States_