AA-2026-9BD826
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A girl of about five or six clings to the pool coping in her yellow rubber bathing cap, the standard equipment of any self-respecting American mother in the 1950s who believed that wet hair caused something — colds, probably, or trouble. The rubber cap was uncomfortable, universally worn, and medically unnecessary, a consensus that would take another generation to fully collapse. She has pushed a pair of rubber swim fins onto the pool deck beside her, the era's great optimism about accessories: the right equipment would make a child a swimmer the way the right briefcase made a man an executive. She looks at the camera with the expression of someone who has just been interrupted mid-plan. The fins are dry, which tells you how the plan was going.
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Girl at the Pool Edge, Yellow Cap, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-9BD826. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/girl-at-the-pool-edge-yellow-cap-1950s.
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note = {Accession AA-2026-9BD826},
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