Bather Collection (page 3)

Bather by tree Date: 1918

Cartoon, A Secret, WW1
Cartoon, A Secret, showing two men bathing in the sea. One man tells the other a secret concerning the war, but warns him not to repeat it, as people will think him a coward. Date: 1915

Cartoon, At Biarritz, WW1
Cartoon, At Biarritz. A man who is optimistic about the war chats in the sea with a fellow-bather. Date: 1915

Suffragette, Mixed Bathing at Seaside. Never mind the sharks! Sign on the beach reads, Beware of the Suffragettes, Bathing Machines provided for Ladies and Suffragettes

Japanese dockside scene - with young bathers
Japanese dockside scene - with moored boats and three young male bathers performing their ablutions. Date: circa 1910s

German Woman takes a mud bath
Greetings from the Mud Bath! German Woman takes a mud bath to cure hersef of all aches and pains. Useful for conveniently temporarily preserving ones modesty

French Ladies Striped Swimming Costume, worn with bathing robe and some remarkable laced greek sandals, matching the design on the costume

Lady Bather at Ostende, Belgium sat on the wheel of a bathing machine. Her costume is possibly rather daring for this era. Date: circa 1910

Italian girls in fancy Swimwear
Three Italian girls posing in fancy Swimwear - seen as scandalous (far too revealing!) in some quarters. Date: circa 1905

US Womens Rights - Who has the right to this young chap?! Date: 1910

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

Two little children building a sandcastle at the seaside
The Childrens Paradise Two little children building a sandcastle at the seaside. Date: circa 1890s

Billiards Illustrated - Spot Barred
A relaxing Vicar, just about to don his tripey bathing suit and take a dip at a likelt spot, is thwarted by a zealous landowner

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

Francis Arthur Bather (1863-1934)

Cothurnocystis elizae Bather, carpoid
The carpoids were a member of the Echinoderms. Specimen dates from the Upper Ordovician, Armillan Series, Drummuck Group Starfish Bed. Ayrshire c. 449m yrs old

Woman with dinosaur models, 1926
Miss Hilda Bather, daughter of Francis Arthur Bather, Keeper of Geology, offered this set of seven dinosaur models for sale from her premises, the Craft Shop at Bognor Regis, Sussex

INGRES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (1780-1867). The Valpin篮 Bather (La baigneuse, dite La baigneuse de Valpin篮 ). 1808. Neoclassicism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum

Cordoba (19th c. ). Guadalquivir river. Etching
Cordoba (19th c.). Guadalquivir river. Etching

Advert for Beetham Larola skin care protection 1931
For the sun bather Fashionable women use Larola because it is a sure protection against exposure to sun or wind. Larola enables you to tan without blistering and keep a lovely, healthy

As a Duck to Water by Lindsay Cable
A lone female bather in a fetching red and yellow bathing suit sits on the end of a pier or jetty and gazes into the water below. Date: 1927

France, Wimereux - Pas de Calais. A lovely souvenir card featuring a fetching young female bather resting on a large rubber ring

Greetings from the mud bath
Greetings from the Mud Bath! A Lady protects her modesty in a mud bath at Bad Kissingen - a spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia, Germany. Date: 1908

Armenian Bathhouse - Sulphur Baths. The attendant is wearing a camel hair mitten, which is using to rub the bather all over which cleanses and exfoliates! Date: circa 1910s

Getting into the Swimming Pool

The Bather - Domergue
" The Bather" Woman in swimwear holding a large parasol sitting on the pier, getting ready to go for a swim

Bather afraid to take a dip - Comic postcard
Comic Postcard from the Racing Illustrated series - " A poor display of Form" - this bather is certainly refusing the first jump!!! Date: 1903

Bathing Belle posing on rocks with a large fishing net. Date: circa 1920s

Seaside bathers after their dip in the sea
Two friends at the seaside, who have just been enjoying a bathe in the sea. Date: 1930s

Poster advertising the Beaches of Belgium
Poster for the Railways of Belgium highlighting the virtues of the Beaches of Belgium (Les Plages Belges)

An advertisement for Clarks slimming bath salts
An advertisement featuring Clarks bath salts, which are advertised as thinning. The picture shows a young woman, having emerged from her bath, draped in a towel and wearing slippers

Family group of bathers in Devon
A family group of bathers at the seaside in Devon -- in the centre is Cecil Watts, and Olive Harper is standing on the right

Comic Postcard - A run on the Bank
A Run on the Bank - a policeman chases a young boy, who had been defying the notice not to bathe. A humourous card playing with the meaning of this phrase

Contented Bather 1929
Advertisement for gas for water heating. An old balding man sits in a full, steaming bath and smiles as he wriggles his toes - he obviously hasn t yet recieved his gas bill

Greetings from Ramsgate
A jolly souvenir postcard from the Kent seaside resort of Ramsgate, depicting a pretty lady bather in the shallow waters edge, holding aloft a lifebelt

Girls in bathing attire
Two girls in different styles of bathing attire have inspired the writer of this postcards ode to bathing beauties: Betwixt these two maidens, I m put to a test, I cannot determine

Reluctant Bather
A girl hesitates on the steps of her bathing machine, dismayed by the appearance of the sea, alarmingly different from the familiarity of the swimming baths !

BATHING BEAUTIES / 1880 S
A Group of women pose before a bathing machine and are watched by a male bather

Brighton / Bather Carriage
Brighton, Sussex: a carriage for bathers, airtight to prevent the person from catching cold

Bathing Beauty 1919
An elegant young bather sitting on a rock encounters an amorous wave

Bathers at Ostend
A bather demonstrates her dexterity and displays her derriere on the step of a bathing machine at Ostend, Belgium

Swimwear for 1915
A bather, in bathing costume and protective hat, stops to adjust her shoe

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