Girl on the Dock, Ta-Maru at Her Back, 1950s

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Girl on the Dock, Ta-Maru at Her Back, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A young girl in pink shorts stands on a white-painted wooden dock, arms folded, leaning against the stern of a two-tone sport-fishing boat named Ta-Maru — a name blending Japanese maritime convention with mid-century North American leisure culture, the kind of boat a man named something like Bud would have been enormously proud of. Several tall trolling rods are rigged and ready, because the 1950s fishing trip was not merely recreation but a demonstration of equipment and forward planning. The dock itself, with its X-braced railings and orange life ring, belongs to a summer fishing resort of the kind that dotted Canadian and northern American lakeshores before outboard motors became cheap enough to make the whole operation a backyard affair. The girl has the expression of someone who has been standing near this boat for a significant portion of her summer and has not yet been invited onto it. The Ta-Maru is the centerpiece of someone's postwar prosperity, and she is simply the scale figure that proves the boat is as large as the owner claims.

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