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Ruth Woods wears a simple wool jersey swim suit designed by Claire McCardell at a fashion show arranged by the New York Times. Date: 1945
Mother and daughter on the beach - Devon - August, 1919. Date: 1919
A group of friends in the sea at Margate, Kent - displaying a fine variety of bathing costumes and caps! Date: 1919
LifebuoyCome down and have the time of your life, boy! Young lady in her eye-catching bathing outfit pokes her head through a lifebuoy. Artist: W Stocker-Shaw. Date: circa 1910
The Ghat, Haridwar, India, Hindus bathing in the GangesThe Ghat, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India, with Hindus bathing in the River Ganges. 19th century
Shop window design, holidays. 1937
Shop window beachwear design, woman sunbathing in deckchair. 1937
Cartoon, Installing the tent. 1923
Cartoon, Sun bathing with rapid action globes. 1923
Cartoon, Customs & Manners of ye Englyshe People - Sea Bathing. 19th century
Annette KellermanAnnette Marie Sarah Kellerman (1886 - 1975), Australian swimmer, film star, and writer. One of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, causing a minor scandal at the time
Bathing - The Water Cure. 1870
Ponds Cold Cream as sun protectionAdvertisement for Ponds Cold Cream, suggesting that, if applied before exposure (to the sun), prevents the skin from becoming dry and burnt. I m not entirely convinced by this claim. Date: 1930
Daughters of Leonid Krassin at the Venice LidoLudmila (in bathing wrap), Luba (with hat) and Katia Krassin, daughters of Leonid Krassin, the Bolshevik leader seen on the beach at the Venice Lido. In the background is the Excelsior hotel
Bathers at the rooftop pool of the Piccadilly HotelA group of bathers, having taken advantage of the bathing-pool at the Piccadilly Hotel, taking a cooling drink during the heat wave in London in August 1932. Date: 1932
Hot Weather Habits At Major J. B. Paget sPage from The Tatler with photographs recording a bathing party held at Ibstock Place, Roehampton, home of Major and Mrs J. B. Paget
Anthony Denney in bathroomInterior decorator and designer Anthony Denney pictured in his stunning bathroom. The walls are covered in an art nouveau still patterned cotton, padded behind
View of the beach at Great Yarmouth, NorfolkView of the beach (looking south) at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, with holidaymakers, boats and bathing huts. Date: circa 1905
Women in large baigneuse cap and chapeau, 1788Woman in pink pierrot wearing a large baigneuse bathing cap in white linen with her hair in ringlets, and woman in green pierrot with black chapeau a la maltaise decorated with feathers and ribbons
Mother putting her baby into a bath. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Augustin Legrands Amour et Tendresse (Love and Tenderness), Louis Janet, Paris, 1820
Beach scene at Colwyn Bay, North Wales, with people, boats and bathing huts. circa 1889
People on the beach at Colwyn Bay, North Wales, with bathing huts in the background. Date: circa 1889
Bathing huts on the beach at Colwyn Bay, North Wales. Date: circa 1889
Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: circa 1908
Family group at seaside, 1920sFamily group photograph at the seaside. An older couple sit on deckchairs with two girls in matching hats and swim suits, the adults smiling whilst the children look less sure theyre enjoying
Jolly crowd in the seaA jolly crowd of bathers wave at the camera as they stand in the sea at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: 1920s
Cartoon, A hint for the seaside, no bathing machine required (just a wide crinoline). 1857
Impromptu dance to gramophone at river resortImpromptu dance to the gramophone at a river resort. Date: 1933
Miss S. T. Phillips playing tennis at the Venice LidoKeeping cool in the lawn tennis court: Miss S. T. Phillips has a game in her bathing suit. Those staying at the Venice Lido regularly went from beach to tennis court in their bathing suit. Date: 1927
Personalities on the beach -- Hon Mrs Richard Norton, the wife of Lord Grantleys heir. Date: 1930
Personalities beside the pool and on the beach -- Lady Cynthia Mosley by the bathing pool, Cap d Antibes (top) and Cocktail Time
Sun worshippers at Eden Roc at Cap D Antibes on the French Riviera. A favourite rendezvous of wealthy Brits during the inter-war years when tanning became ultra-fashionable. 1930
Bathing at the Lido, near VeniceBathers enjoying the warm waters of the Adriatic Sea at the Venice Lido in 1901. The building of the bathing establishment ( stabilimenti ), seen here on the left
The morning lounge at BiarritzScene on the beach at Biarritz in 1866, about a decade after the resort on the SW French coast was made fashionable by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie
Knitted swim wear 1940Page from a magazine showing a model wearing a knitted bikini. Date: 1940
People on a beach, JapanPeople on a beach, somewhere in Japan. Date: circa 1908
Coogee Bay Beach, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCoogee Bay Beach with Shark Tower (for observation), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with hot sea bathing and massage rooms. Date: circa 1930s
Surf bathing, Manly Beach, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaSurf bathing with holidaymakers and deckchairs at Manly Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1908
Hotel Thunderbird, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - view of the swimming pool and patio. Date: 1950
Barbara Hutton swimming at Monte Carlo beachCountess Haugwitz-Reventlow, aka the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, having a swimming lesson in the Monte Carlo Beach swimming pool on the French Riviera. Date: 1936
Life Savers on a Continental beachLife savers stationed on an unidentified Continental beach in 1923. Any adventurous swimmer who dared to swim out a little further than what was deemed perfectly safe was forcibly rescued often with
Woman in a swimming costume on the beach at the seaside. Date: circa early 1920s
Holidaymakers on the beach at Torquay, Devon. Date: circa early 1920s
Children on the beach at the seaside. Date: circa early 1920s
Cartoon, Manners and Modes - postwar simplicity in bathing gear. Date: 1920
Part of Scarborough, drawn by John Leech 1857Victorian mainly women and children having a ride on carriage around the beach. 1857
Bathing at Brighton, Sussex 1901Bathing at Brighton, Sussex. Date: 1901
The Casino at Dinard, with swimming poolImpression of the Casino at Dinard, opened in 1928, with its swimming pool right in the centre. Date: 1929