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Waikiki Surf Boards, Hawaii, 1938

"'All a-board'" at Waikiki for a surf ride!

"Sun-baked mermaids at Honolulu's celebrated beach line up their surfboards just before a swift dash on the crest of a curling wave."

—From "Hawaii, Then and Now," October 1938, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Richard H. Stewart