Spa guests in the Bad Homburg spa park, 1937

Four spa guests—two women and two men in summer daywear—pose outdoors in the spa park at Bad Homburg.

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The still shows a group of four persons in casual summer dress of the period, gathered before a wooden balustrade in the midst of a verdant outdoor area. The older gentleman on the right wears a flat straw hat and jacket with bow tie, indicating a bourgeois spa guest milieu. The image belongs to the section of the travel film that addresses the spa towns of Wiesbaden and Bad Homburg. As a spa park scene, it illustrates the convivial recreation operations that characterized the image of these Hessian spa towns in the 1930s. Such photographs of visitors in well-maintained spa settings served in the cultural film to acquaint the international audience with the refined leisure character of German health resorts.

Resolution 7680 × 4320 px (33,2 MP)
File format TIFF, 16-bit
Year taken 1937
Location Bad Homburg
Collection Historiathek / zb Media
Source archive NARA
Photographer Unbekannt
Rights Historiathek / zb Media GmbH