EU: Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia: members of Life Saving Clubs put on a display at a surf carnival. Photograph, ca. (1920)
1920 Sydney, Australia
Members of surf life saving clubs perform at a carnival on Bondi Beach, Sydney, in this photograph from around 1920. Surf carnivals of this kind showcased rescue skills and had become a popular public spectacle on Australian beaches by the early twentieth century.
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