A vintage photograph of an Edwardian era family relaxing on the beach in Douglas Bay, Isle of Man, circa 1905.

A photograph of a father and his children by a large sandcastle at the beach in the 1920s.

An antique photograph of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

A vintage photograph from the late Victorian or early Edwardian period of a group of young children at the seaside.

An antique photograph of the seaside town of Southport, England.

An antique photograph of the seaside town of Hastings, England.

An antique photograph of the seaside town of Lowestoft, England.

Bathers at a U.S. beach, circa the 1950s.

Two couples standing on a U.S. beach.

A woman wearing a bathing suit, sitting by a wall on a U.S. beach, circa the 1930s.

People walking on a promenade by a seashore.

A crowd of people on a beach.

A mother playing in the sand on a beach with a young girl.

Girls at the seaside.

A group of surfers on a beach with a Ford Mustang.

Women of the Jehovah's Witness faith community await their baptism on Orchard Beach in New York City in 1958.

A vintage photo of a mother and daughter on a beach sometime in the ‘50s.

A family on a U.S. beach around the 1950s.

Two women sitting under a parasol at the beach sometime in the 1930s.

Two women drinking soda on a U.S. beach in the 1950s.

Three women standing on a beach, holding hands and smiling in the 1940s.

A mother and father standing in the sea, holding twin boys in the ‘60s.

Adults and children at the ice cream car on the beach of Zandvoort, Netherlands, in 1963.

A man and woman lying on their fronts on the beach, circa 1960.

Kids swimming in the Adriatic Sea on the beach of Rimini, one of the popular seaside resorts on the Adriatic coast in the ‘60s.

The north beach in the East Frisian Islands in Lower Saxony, Germany, with the famous colorful Borkum beach tents.

An archival photograph of people lining up and diving off a swimming pier on a small beach at a lake in the U.S. in 1965.

A child and her mother picking up shells.

A young woman lying on the beach with a 1930s swimsuit in Liguria, Italy.

A couple relaxing on a U.S. beach in the 1950s.

A vintage 19th-century photomontage of women at the beach being surrounded by seagulls.

A vintage photograph of three young girls paddling in the sea during the Edwardian period.

A vintage photograph of an Edwardian era family on a day out at the seaside in Knokke, Belgium.

An Atlantic City, New Jersey, beach in 1893.

A vintage photograph of two Edwardian era children playing in the sand at the seaside in Knokke, Belgium.

A vintage photograph of a man looking through a telescope sometime during the late Victorian or early Edwardian period.

A group of young people enjoy a day at a beach in Denmark in 1978.

Tourists on Waikiki Beach in Oahu, Hawaii.

A woman in a swimsuit having a soda in the ‘50s.

A seaside tourist complex.

A crowd of people walking along a beach.

A couple on a lake in a paddleboat in the ‘50s.

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