The scene could be at a beach or perhaps a river bank. The boys are enjoying posing for the camera. Segregated swimming was still in vogue until around 1910, but that did not stop beach holidays for the boys. Women in bathing costumes were a much rarer sight in the era.
Queensland Museum holds over 1000 of Bert Roberts' plate glass negatives and prints from the era.
The original image is public domain. The plate glass negative is owned by Queensland Museum. Digitisation of this image is licensed under CC BY SA 3.0.
This image has been digitised by the Queensland Museum, and provided to the Wikimedia Commons as part of a cooperation project. The original image is in the public domain, but the Queensland Museum asserts copyright over the digitisation process, and has released the digitisation itself under CC-BY-SA-3.0. In the United States and other jurisdictions that do not implement the sweat of the brow doctrine, these images are in the public domain.
يقع هذا العمل في النِّطاق العامِّ في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكيَّة لأنَّه يستوفي ثلاثة متطلبات:
نُشِر للمرة الأولى خارج الولايات المتحدة، و لم يُنشر فيها في غضون 30 يوماً بعد ذلك.
نُشِر للمرة الأولى قبل 1 مارس 1989م دون إشعار حقوق تأليفٍ ونشر أو قبل عام 1964م دون تجديد حقوق النشر أو قبل قيام دولة المصدر بعمل علاقات حقوق تأليفٍ ونشرٍ مع الولايات المتحدة.
للمزيد مِن المعلومات انظر حقوق التَّأليف والنَّشر غير الأمريكيَّة. The photo was created before 1946, so the Australian copyright of 50 years since creation of the photo had already expired by the time the URAA entered in force in the U.S.
== Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|1= ''Boys at the beach.'' Segregated swimming was still in vogue until around 1910, but that did not stop beach holidays for the boys. Women in bathing costumes were a much rarer sight in the era. Queensland