Waikiki’s Surf Runs High This Fall • 1922
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A Hawaii Tourist Bureau ad from 1922, the same date as the handwritten copyright notation in the lower left corner of the photo. While this could be a picture of 4 individual surfers, the indistinct appearance of the wave suggests this actually could be a retouched combination of two separate photos.

​This was many decades before computer retouching had even been conceived; in those days, actual photo prints were cut up, glued together, and the entire thing then carefully repainted using small brushes.