Happy Girls with Ukuleles — 1926

Came across this happy snap at www.shorpy.com, and then found it on the Library of Congress site.

Happy Girls with Ukuleles

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.16039
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

UPDATE (more information from Shorpy site): ‘July 9, 1926. Washington, D.C. “Girls in bathing suits with ukuleles.” Identified in the caption of another photo as Elaine Griggs, Virginia Hunter, Mary Kaminsky, Dorothy Kelly and Hazel Brown.’

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  1. […] [4] The Library of Congress holds a photograph from 1926 of five happy young women with ukuleles, but I cannot say how they got them. Photograph at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.16039 Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html (accessed 5 April 2009). I first found this picture on http://www.shorpy.com, a site that holds a wealth of vintage photography. (See Happy Girls with Ukuleles — 1926) […]


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