SLIM AARONS
From an Acapulco afternoon to horseshoe tossing in New York City's Central Park, VIEW OUR GALLERY of photographer Slim Aarons' glimpse into holidays in the sun.

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Bill Babb, Thomas Beecher, model Carolyn Phillips, Mrs Rabb, and model Jean Adams, enjoying some guitar music on a terrace in Acapulco, Mexico, 1952.
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Two young women going snorkelling, 1954.
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A group of mature men throwing horseshoes in Central Park in the summer of 1947.
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American film star Katharine Hepburn driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1953.
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Swimsuited revellers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, 1958.
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Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
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Journalist Lucius Beebe beside a gold place setting in the glass roofed Garden Court of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. His walking stick once belonged to a Wells Fargo stage driver.
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Mexican film star Dolores del Rio floating in a swimming pool in Acapulco, 1952.
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"King of the Hatters," Mr. John in his salon full of objet d'art on New York's 57th street, circa 1960. Trying on a hat is the editor of Vogue, Denise Lawson-Johnston.
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American writer C.Z. Guest and her son Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest in front of their Grecian temple pool at the ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, Palm Beach.
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Hon. Desmond Guinness in his recently acquired home Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, Ireland with his children Marina and Patrick. Their mother is Princess Marie Gabrielle von Urach.
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Writer of comedy commercials and famous for his CBS satirical radio series in the late '50s, Stan Freberg, working in his swimming pool, 1962.
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Photographer Slim Aarons slouches in a chair with the Acropolis and its surroundings as a backdrop, 1955.
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