Semi-Annual Meeting, Ocean City, 1908

I am not even through a dozen boxes from the Maryland Center for History & Culture, and I have found treasures galore. About half of the boxes of ephemera and all of the books are catalogued, but the rest of the ephemera is not.

With the semi-annual House of Delegates meetings coming up in the next few weeks, I thought I'd share two photos from the 1908 "semi-annual" meeting, held in Ocean City in September of that year. 

As you can see, some of our members took advantage of the still-warm ocean water to take a dip in their fetching bathing costumes, which were probably made of wool!

Luckily, they put their clothes on later and posed for a photo in front of what was probably their hotel.

Fortunately, Marcia had written the names of the bathers on the back of that photo, so we know who they are! You might need to enlarge the photo to see the names clearly.