

Charles Cushman was an obsessive and meticulous amateur photographer who spent his lifetime diligently documenting the world around him. His collection of 14,400 color Kodachrome slides, shot from September 3, 1938 to April 20, 1969, was left to the University of Indiana, where it was painstakingly archived. His travel photography was published in the book The Day in Its Color: Charles Cushman's Photographic Journey Through a Vanishing America, but there are thousands more photos to pour through.
We particularly love the colors in his photos of sunbathing beauties at Hyde Park's Promontory Point, which he shot from 1941–1949. Cushman often pointed his camera at Chicago, photographing everything from steel mills to museums, but with summer upon us we were seduced by his collection of sunbathers.
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