Hygeia Swimming Pool Postcard

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Title

Hygeia Swimming Pool Postcard

Alternative Title

Hygeia Swimming Pool Postcard

Subject

Pools
Swimming--United States

Description

A postcard depicting the interior of the Hygeia Baths, a three-level structure that featured salt water baths during the golden era of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The baths were destroyed during a hurricane in 1944, and saltwater swimming pools eventually lost popularity.

This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.

Source

Original 3 x 5 inch color postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.

Publisher

Sander, P.

Date Created

ca. 1910-1944

Date Copyrighted

ca. 1910-1944

Contributor

Campbell, Lucile

Is Format Of

Digital reproduction of original 3 x 5 inch color postcard.

Is Part Of

File folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, UCF Public History Center, Sanford, Florida.
Lucile Campbell Collection, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Format

application/pdf

Extent

328 KB

Medium

3 x 5 inch color postcard

Language

eng

Type

Still Image

Coverage

Hygeia Baths, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher
Geography Teacher

Provenance

Originally published by P. Sander.

Rights Holder

Copyright to this resource is held by the UCF Public History Center and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Contributing Project

Aphasia Project

Curator

Raffel, Sara

Digital Collection

External Reference

"Sand in My Shoes." Press of Atlantic City. http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/life/sand-in-my-shoes-saltwater-pools-harken-back-to-atlantic/article_b0f26793-865d-592f-bfd5-bc586ec2b6f4.html.

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

1 color postcard

Physical Dimensions

3 x 5 inches

Citation

“Hygeia Swimming Pool Postcard,” RICHES, accessed December 4, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/6759.

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