Bains Collection

Poster, SNCF to Plombieres Les Bains, Vosges, France
Poster, SNCF to Plombieres Les Bains (spa), Vosges, France, five hours from Paris. circa 1935

Vichy, France - Bathroom
Vichy, France - Taking the healing waters - here the patient is wrapped up and then submerged within a superb enamel bath. Note the spectacular art nouveau tiling! Date: early 1910s

Place d'Armes - Salins-les-Bains (Salins), Eastern France
Place d'Armes (now Place des Allies et de la Resistance) - Salins-les-Bains (Salins), a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region, Eastern France. Date: circa 1920s

Interior of the Casino at Enghien-les-Bains, France
Enghien-les-Bains, a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France - The Salle des Jeux (Games Room) at the Casino. Enghien-les-Bains is famous as a spa resort and a well-to-do suburb of Paris

Poster, Allevard les Bains, Isere, France Date: 1925

Illustration, A Day at the Races
Colour illustration, A Day at the Races showing men and women with carriage and picnic hamper. From the coloured lithographs Les Cocottes Aux Bains De Mer

Illustration, Glamour Girls by the Seaside
Colour illustration, Glamour Girls by the Seaside, showing women sea bathing. From a page captioned, Pleasures of The Era of Peace'

Poster, St Moritz les Bains, Switzerland Date: 1943

Leukerbad Loeche-les-Bains, canton Valais Switzerland
19th century vintage photograph: Leukerbad (French: Loeche-les-Bains, Walliser German: Leiggerbad, although locally known as Baadu)

Chapel ruins, Saint-Gervais les Bains, France
19th century vintage photograph: Chapel ruins, Saint-Gervais les Bains, France

A stand at the Champ de Mars races, 1848
Woman watching the horse race at Champ de Mars racetrack. She wears a bonnet and blue redingote over a crinoline dress. Men in top hat and tails. A stand at the Champ de Mars races, 1848

Fashionable woman in front of the Bains Vigier, 1797
Fashionable woman or Merveilleuse in front of the Bains Vigier or Vigiers thermal baths on the banks of the River Seine, Year V, 1797. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

A cosmetics and accessories seller making a house call. The customers are a geisha madam and two young geisha in an okiya

Antique Roman mosaic discovered in Yverdon-les-bains
Antique Roman mosaic discovered in Orbe, near Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland. Mosaic with man playing a lyre, with horse, lion, birds, etc. Antico Mosaico scoperto in Yverdun

Brass grave effigy to Maria Langhans in the church at Hindelbank, Bern, Switzerland, by the sculptor Johann August Nahl. Monumento Sepolcrale

Variety of Telegraph machinery including a Single needle telegraph of Cooke Date: circa 1850

Advert for Aix Les Bains, France (1927) - the worlds most fashionable watering place Date: 1927

France - St Martin-du-Canigou near Vernet-les-Bains
France - Abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou near Vernet-les-Bains - a monastery built in 1009 in the Pyrenees on Canigou mountain in present-day southern France near the Spanish border

NIT-PICKING, CATALONIA
A Catalan woman searches a childs head for lice (pediculis capitis) and nits (eggs or young lice) at Amelie-les-Bains Date: 1904

Nice Beach Postcard - 1920
On the beach at Nice, France Date: circa 1920

Charabanc tours of the Alps, from Evians-les-Bains, Savoie. Date: 1938

Sedan Chair porters and occupant - at Mont-Dore, France
Sedan Chair porters and occupant - at the Galerie Pasteur, Mont-Dore (Mont Dor in Occitan), formerly called Mont-Dore-les-Bains, a commune in the Puy-de-Dome department in Auvergne in central France

Thermal Baths, Aix-les-bains
Massage at The Thermal Baths, Aix-les-bains, a thermal spa town on Lake Bourget, Savoy, France. Note the attractive tiling typical of establishments of this period and type (now very collectable)

Grand Hotel des Bains in Helwan (Helouan), Egypt
A photographer takes a picture of a group of people at the main entrance of the Grand Hotel des Bains in Helwan (Helouan), Egypt. Date: circa 1905

Montage of hotels and resorts in Helwan (Helouan), Egypt
Montage showing the Grand Hotel (top), the Hotel des Bains (right) and the thermal spa and swimmer baths (left) in Helwan (Helouan) in the south of Greater Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1905

Circular Shower at The Thermal Baths, Aix-les-bains, France
A partially-clad young lady enjoys the all-round cleaning ability of the Circular Shower at The Thermal Baths, Aix-les-bains, a thermal spa town on Lake Bourget, Savoy, France. Date: circa 1910s

Shopfront, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Showing Premises of GE Bains, Butcher Date: 1910s

More Entanglements by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Bathing at Casse Les Bains is going to be rotten again this year. Two stereotypically grouchy looking Germans in bathing costumes do their best to enjoy a seaside holiday despite the barbed wire

Aix-les-Bains, France - Cascade de Cresy Date: 1860

Luxeuil-les-Bains, France
Luxeuil-les-Bains - a commune in the Haute-Saone department in the region of Franche-Comte in eastern France. The Flower Baths - The Thermal Spa Establishment. Date: circa 1906

Statue of Edward Jenner - Vaccination Pioneer - Boulogne
Statue of Edward Jenner (1749-1823) - Vaccination Pioneer - Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. Date: circa 1909

Advert for Aix Les Bains, France (1927) - the worlds most fashionable watering place Date: 1927

Malo-Les-Bains, France - panoramic view of beach
Malo-Les-Bains, France - panoramic view of the beach, full of holidaymakers and tents. Date: circa 1910s

Malo-les-Bains, France - tennis courts and field
Busy tennis courts and a path running through fields at the beach resort town of Malo-les-Bains, near to the northern French town of Dunkirk (Dunkerque). circa 1910s

Malo-les-Bains, France - women fishing for shrimp
Malo-les-Bains, France - two women fishing for shrimp sieve through shallow water with large nets on poles. circa 1910s

Malo-les-Bains, France - seafront road
Malo-les-Bains, France - the seafront road (Rue de la Mer) of the beach town of Malo-les-Bains, near to Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in northern France

Malo-les-Bains, France - children building sandcastles
Children have a sandcastle building competition on the Malo-les-Bains beach, near Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in northern France. circa 1910s

Dunkirk, France - paddling at Malo-les-Bains beach
Dunkirk, France - people paddling and playing in the waves at Malo-les-Bains beach, with sailing boats on the sea in the background. circa 1910s

Dunkirk, France - the beach at Malo-les-Bains
Malo-les-Bains beach near Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in France. Children are playing in the sand and people rest in beach tents and wooden huts. circa 1910s

Malo-les-Bains, France - bathers
A man in a bathing suit stands in the surf of the Malo-les-Bains beach, near Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in France. Behind him are other bathers as well as various boats. circa 1910s

Malos-les-Bains, France - boats at sunset
Malos-les-Bains, France - A group of sailboats again a sunset backdrop, with waves and the beach in the foreground. Date: circa 1910s

Malo-Les-Bains, France - seaside resort and beach
The seaside town of Malo-Les-Bains, France, showing the dike and crowded beach lined with wooden huts. circa 1910s

Aix-les-Bains, France - La Buvette, Source of the Spring
Aix-les-Bains, France - La Buvette ( The Bar ), Source of the Spring of the Two Queens ( Source des deux Reines ). Date: circa 1906

French Spa Town - Saint-Nectaire-le-Bas - Hotel Modern, the Hotel Bains Romains and the Hotel Paris. Note the lovely circular radiator of the De Dion Bouton Tourer of 1909 (heading toward the camera)

Poster, travel to Mont Blanc via St Gervais Les Bains and Col de Voza. Date: 1928

Football team champions, Punahou, Honolulu, Hawaii
Group photo, football team champions, Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii. 1910-1911

A ballet taking place outside at Villa Des Fleurs, Aix Le Bains Date: circa 1920

Atrium in Le Grand Cercle (Grand Casino) Aix Le Bains
A colourised view of the Atrium in Le Grand Cercle (Grand Casino) Aix Le Bains Date: circa 1920

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