As an addendum to the “High spots from West Duluth Day at the 1926 Winter Frolic” post we present this digitally enhanced photo from the cover of the Feb. 11, 1926 Duluth Herald. It appeared in the paper with the headline “Bathing girls frolic in Chester Park snowdrift.”

The grainy newspaper image was posted to Perfect Duluth Day’s Facebook page without the intention of including it here on the website, but after Andy Conley saw it and shared a version enhanced by artificial intelligence, it seemed too spiffy to not share it at perfectduluthday.com.

Of course, it should go without saying that the manipulation of the image has to some extent distorted the faces of the real people who appear in the photo. So, while it looks far better than the newsprint version, below, it does not necessarily offer an accurate account of the faces of the “bathing girls,” namely Ruth Youngdahl, Muriel Tweed, Loretta Kohl, Florence Lynch and Antoinette Homicke.

The Herald’s caption below the image reads:

Here they are, Duluth’s bathing girls frolicking in the snowdrifts and tobogganing at the Chester park ski jump. They performed for the movies yesterday afternoon and after they posed for The Herald cameraman. Miss Dorothy Jones, queen of the Winter Frolic, and the girls of her court came swooping down on the bathing girls, pelted them with snow and drove them to shelter in the clubhouse. The Winter Girls drove the Summer Girls away, said Queen Dorothy proudly, in describing the victory.