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Weekend Swimmers, New Jersey, 1961

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"Weekend swimmers throng Atlantic City's beach. Lifeguards rescue some 1,200 bathers each summer. Convention Hall stands at left; Steel Pier juts into the sea at right."

—From "From Sea to Shining Sea," July 1961, National Geographic magazine
Photograph by Volkmar Wentzel

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