Magnum Editions Poster: Members of the Seattle Tubing Society, 1953 Color 30 x 24 cm)

30 x 24 cm)

Burt Glinn became an associate member of Magnum in 1951

The club’s members would dress in flamboyant costumes

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Burt Glinn served in the United States Army before studying literature at Harvard University

Magnum Editions Poster: Members of the Seattle Tubing Society, 1953 Color 30 x 24 cm)One of the rites of spring in Seattle society during the 1950s was the Seattle Tubing Society Springtime Float. The clubs members would dress in flamboyant costumes, line the banks of the Sammamish Slough with their inner tubes in hand, and then march into the river to float down to Lake Washington. They were accompanied by a bar tube that was always well supplied. Burt Glinn became an associate member of Magnum in 1951, along with Eve Arnold and