Women of the ghetto bathing / - movie film screenshot

The subject is a group of women and girls in a public swimming pool wearing turn-of the-century bathing attire. Many women and girls are playing in the pool, while others climb out and jump into the pool. The water in the the pool appears to be about four feet deep and the pool is very crowded. According the Biograph picture catalogue, the scene takes place in a New York Public Bath on "ladies day".
H24897 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 09Dec02; H24897.
Camera, Arthur Marvin.
Duration: 0:55 at 16 fps.
Corrected footage for 16 mm. from document "Paper Prints: major errors in catalog" in Library of Congress Moving Image Research Center; 35 mm. footage take from Biograph Picture Catalogue.
Photographed in the East 3rd St. Public Bath in New York City, probably in July, 1901.
Parts of summary taken from Early motion pictures and from the Biograph picture catalogue.
Biograph production no. 1952.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1359) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 369; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 1201; Biograph production logs; Biograph picture catalog, November 1902, p. 92, viewed online November 2, 2016 via the New Jersey Digital Highway.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.