Photographic print of a lifeguard teaching a boy to swim at a swimming pool

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A black and white photograph of a swimming pool. In the center middle ground, a lifeguard holds a boy on his stomach in the water as he learns to swim. In the background, there are other children swimming and playing in the pool. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom left corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription, by hand, of the number: [320] and a photographer's stamp.

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