Description: Caption reads; "The bathing beach at Virginia Kendall Park, summer of 1938. Part sand and parf turf beaches". This is a photograph of people swimming and sunbathing at Virginia Kendall Park in Akron, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F02_021_001
Subjects: Beaches; Sunbathing; Swimming; Parks--Ohio; Recreation; Bathing suits--1930-1940; Lakes Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Four (4) women and two (2) men sitting on a beach in Italy, with people and buildings in the distance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS23_B02F27_B
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Proctor, Bernard Shaw; Tuskegee Airmen; World War II; 99th Pursuit Fighter Squadron; 332nd Fighter Group; Men; Women; Beaches; Buildings; United States Army Air Corps; United States Air Force
Places: Italy
 

Description: Reverse reads: "People at work + play." This is a photograph of people swimming and frolicking at an unknown beach in Ohio. More information needed. C. W. ACKERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER 302 1227 PROSPECT BLDG MA. 5693 CLEVELAND. O" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F10_015_001
Subjects: Beaches; Sunbathing; Swimming; Parks--Ohio; Recreation; Bathing suits--1930-1940; Lakes Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Bernard S. Proctor and one (1) other man eating at a table outside in an enclosed area near the beach. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS23_B02F27_E
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Proctor, Bernard Shaw; Tuskegee Airmen; World War II; 99th Pursuit Fighter Squadron; 332nd Fighter Group; Men; Beaches; Buildings; Porches; United States Army Air Corps; United States Air Force
Places: Italy
 

Description: Bernard S. Proctor, one (1) other man, and two (2) women relaxing on a beach in Italy with several buildings behind them. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS23_B02F27_C
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Proctor, Bernard Shaw; Tuskegee Airmen; World War II; 99th Pursuit Fighter Squadron; 332nd Fighter Group; Men; Women; Beaches; Buildings; United States Army Air Corps; United States Air Force
Places: Italy
 

Description: The photograph shows a crowd of people on an unidentified beach. The women on the beach face the water and all wear long shirts and skirts, with many of them holding black umbrellas. The men wear suits and hats. Children in hats walk towards the water, and a girl in a white dress and hat walks in shallow water back to the beach. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F01_28
Subjects: Beaches; Swimming; Sports and leisure
Places: Ohio;
 

Description: Four 3.5" x 5" (8.89 x 12.7 cm) postcards document scenes along Grand Lake St. Marys in Mercer County. The first shows the lighthouse at Northwood, located on the north shore of the lake between St. Marys and Celina. Three other postcards include images of a street along the west shore, a swimming beach, and a bird's eye view of the shoreline near Celina. Grand Lake St. Marys was the largest man-made lake in the world when it was built in 1845. The 13,500-acre lake was built to feed water into the Miami-Erie Canal when water levels fell below five feet. The lake took seven years to build and includes fifty miles of shoreline. It became a state park in 1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3129_3832147_005
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Lakes & ponds; Lighthouses; Roads; Beaches
Places: Celina (Ohio); Mercer County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows children standing along an unidentified beach, with a wooden structure in the distance. The original negative includes the title "Monroe," although it is unclear what this refers to. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F03_29
Subjects: Lakes--Ohio; Children; Landscape photography; Beaches
Places: Ohio;
 

Description: The photograph shows a crowd on a boardwalk and on the beach below. Several women hold umbrellas. The men wear suits and hats and the women wear long skirts, shirts, and hats. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F03_60
Subjects: Beaches; Swimming; Sports and leisure
Places: Ohio;
 

Description: Two unknown women wade and sunbathe at a lake beach in Ohio. The lake could be any number of bodies of water throughout the state. There also appears to be more people in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_045
Subjects: Swimming; Beaches; Sunbathing; Recreation; Lakes Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: (Ohio)
 

Description: Two photographs of the swimming beach at Burr Oak State Park were taken in the 1960s. Burr Oak Lake was created in 1950 when the Tom Jenkins Dam was built across Sunday Creek. The park was established two years later and offers hiking, boating, camping, and fishing. The slides measure 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3122_3737960_001
Subjects: Sports; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Swimming; Beaches; Parks; Recreation
Places: Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Swimming pool below dam at Hinckley Reservoir, Cleveland Metropolitan Park System. Photographed by Henry P. Boynton- 1940." Several people swim and play at the pond near Hinckley Reservoir in the Cleveland Metropolitan Park System in 1940. There is a dam behind the swimmers and people standing on shore. The reservoir is now known as Hinckley Reservation, but is still operated by the Cleveland Metropolitan Park System. The majority of the reservation is made up of 90-acre Hinckley Lake, which in addition to swimmers and sunbathers, is enjoyed by ice fishermen and skaters in the winter months. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F03_0010_001
Subjects: Cleveland Metropolitan Park District (Ohio); Bathing suits; Swimming; Beaches; Sunbathing; Recreation; Lakes Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Hinckley (Ohio); Medina County (Ohio)