Bathing Collection (page 10)

A group of friends in the sea at Margate, Kent - displaying a fine variety of bathing costumes and caps! Date: 1919

Lifebuoy
Come 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 Ganges
The 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 Kellerman
Annette 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 protection
Advertisement 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 Lido
Ludmila (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 Hotel
A 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 s
Page 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 bathroom
Interior 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, Norfolk
View 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, 1788
Woman 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

Saltair Pavilion, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Saltair Pavilion with bathers, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Great Southern Hotel, Parknasilla, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: circa 1908

Family group at seaside, 1920s
Family 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 sea
A 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 resort
Impromptu dance to the gramophone at a river resort. Date: 1933

Miss S. T. Phillips playing tennis at the Venice Lido
Keeping 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 Venice
Bathers 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 Biarritz
Scene 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 1940
Page from a magazine showing a model wearing a knitted bikini. Date: 1940

People on a beach, Japan
People on a beach, somewhere in Japan. Date: circa 1908

Coogee Bay Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Coogee 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, Australia
Surf 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 beach
Countess 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 beach
Life 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 1857
Victorian mainly women and children having a ride on carriage around the beach. 1857

Bathing at Brighton, Sussex 1901
Bathing at Brighton, Sussex. Date: 1901

The Casino at Dinard, with swimming pool
Impression of the Casino at Dinard, opened in 1928, with its swimming pool right in the centre. Date: 1929

The Lido-Laters by Howard K. Elcock
Fashionable society bathing and lying in the sun at the equally fashionable Venice Lido, under the familiar striped cabanna and parasols. Date: 1929

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