Earlier this year, I wrote an entry about The Mermaid, one of my favorite mermaid paintings by the late famous illustrator Howard Pyle.
Just recently, I was contacted by a fellow mermaid devotee, an employee at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, who also collaborates with Howard Pyle's great granddaughter. (On a side note, the Winterthur Museum is hosting an exhibit of original costumes from Downton Abbey through January 4, 2015.)
As a result of this serendipitous cyber-world connection, The Daily Mermaid has been given permission to share never-before-seen photos taken by Howard Pyle of his family at Rehoboth Beach in Delaware in 1910.
I hope you'll enjoy these photos of an Edwardian day by the sea. In terms of dress things have changed quite a bit, but I think we can all understand the joy of a day at the beach.
(Click on the photos to see them at a larger size.)
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| Howard Pyle, Rehoboth Beach, 1910 |
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| Howard Pyle, Rehoboth Beach, 1910 |
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| Howard Pyle, Rehoboth Beach, 1910 |
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| Howard Pyle, Rehoboth Beach, 1910 |
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| Howard Pyle, Rehoboth Beach, 1910 |
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| Howard Pyle, Rehoboth Beach, 1910 |
Great pictures. I've been reading the Images of America: Revere Beach book recently and it has similar pics.
ReplyDeleteI've heard that Revere Beach was quite the hotspot at the turn of the century... carousels, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis is very interesting and possessed of one little additional bit of cyber-serendipity. The Paris Review just used Howard Pyle's Mermaid as an illustration for an article of theirs. I was curious, so I searched a little, and your essay on his Mermaid turned up in the results. And then I found this. I'm glad to have stumbled on your pages.
ReplyDeleteThe Paris Review article, by the way, wasn't about the painting (you know, everyone has to put at image of whatever kind at the top of every essay online), but, in case you're curious:
http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/94344168239/the-professor-and-the-siren-stimulates-each-of
Nice post.
Virgil, thank you for sharing this link. I hadn't heard of the story (The Professor and the Mermaid) mentioned in the Paris review article.
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