Bathing Collection (page 11)

Lunch at Taverna of the Excelsior Palace Hotel, Venice Lido
Impression of the Taverna restaurant, part of the huge Excelsior Palace Hotel on the beach at the Venice Lido. Diners rarely dressed for lunch

Six Little Camping Girls Going Down to Bathe, Wallis Mills
Six girls on a camping trip make a jolly sight as they skip down to the beach in colourful pyjamas to bathe. Date: 1929

The Joys of the Lido - boating and bathing - to say nothing of sun-bathing. An artists celebration of the fashionable Venice Lido in 1926. Date: 1926

Sea Suits for Sunning and Swimming 1931
Clothes for swimming and sunbathings, two leisure preoccupations of the 1930s. The gaily coloured outfit on the left in striped blue and white heavy cotton has braces to the trousers

The new lido at Baden
View of the Lido was built at Baden in the 1920s, sixteen miles from Vienna, to attract more visitors. Vast quantities of sand were imported in trucks

Bathers at Baden
Bathers enjoying the seaside life at landlocked Baden, renowned for its thermal springs. A Lido was built in the 1920s, sixteen miles from Vienna, to attract more visitors

Front cover, Lady Milbanke, Beauty in a Bathing Cap, on the Riviera, South of France. Date: August 1933

Cartoon, Logic! by Bert Thomas. Daughter to mother: Well, I hardly ever go to bed here. I must take my clothes off sometimes. Date: 1933

Scenes from the Lido in Venice, Italy - riding on horseback in the sea (top left), an illuminated night-time cabaret (bottom left), people on the floating bar (top centre)

Cartoon, The Letter of the Law, by Ghilchick -- One-Piece Bathing Suits Prohibited. Date: 1933

Lido fashions for sunning and swimming
Beach ensembles for the fashionable Venice Lido. On the left is a pyjama suit of stockinette in blue and white with a coat in a modern design

Tatler Cover, Summer Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler Summer Number with a stylised illustration of a seaside resort in the Edwardian era with bathing beauties being surprised by a lusty looking Neptune in the water. Date: 1954

Kodak photograph wallet
A bathing beauty graces the cover of a Kodak photograph and negatives wallet Date: circa 1920s

St. Marylebone baths and washouses 1850
Exterior of St. Marylebone road baths and washhouses, London. Design consists of one facade in Italian stye with rusticated stone basement, the upper story being red brick

Gibson - different styles in bathing suits - 1900s
Illustration by Charles Dana Gibson showing different styles in bathing suits circa 1907. Date: circa 1907

Studio photo, Brighton bathing belles
Studio photograph of Brighton bathing belles. circa 1918

View of Atlantic City, New Jersey
A view of Atlantic City, New Jersey, from the water, with three bathing beauties in swimming costumes doing a spot of sea fishing from the back of a boat in the foreground

Clarks Thinning Bath Salts
A woman adding Clarks famous Thinning Bath Salts her to her bath in the hope of achieving a slim figure required of modern fashions. 1928

Ventnor, Isle of Wight. circa 1880

Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight. circa 1880

Glamorous girls
Three glamorous Edwardian girls bathing in the sea. Artist M. Morris. Date: c.1906

People bathing, Britannia Beach, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
People bathing at Britannia Beach, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with a long pier in the distance. Date: circa 1910

Fashionable bathing costume 1911
Woman wearing a soft emerald-green satin decorated with white braid, available from Debenham and Freebody s. Date: 1911

Dipping a toe in the water
Victorian child coming out of a bathing machine and venturing into the sea. Date: circa 1904

Mixed bathing
Cats in swimsuits frolicking in the see. Date: 1908

Page of Fashion adverts 1937
Two adverts from Woolands of model wearing a graceful full length Ascot dress, designed in floral organza, patterned in charming shades, petalled frill on bodice and skirt

Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Ocean View, Auditorium and Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1930

Women paddling in the sea 1906
" Is it fun having the men to teach you to swimming?" " Fun! Why, rather! I ve been taught five times". Date: 1906

Two women bathing in the sea, Normandy, France
Two women (probably mother and daughter) bathing in the sea, Riva Bella, Normandy, France, August 1921. Date: 1921

Advert, Montpellier Baths, Bath Road, Cheltenham. 1826

Cartoon - Going down to a watering place, for the benefit of Bathing. early 19th century

Beach scene at Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain, with people and boats. Date: circa 1960s

Bathing the new doll - Sisters washing the new doll in the bathtub. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1920

Bathing - Group of children bathing and looking at frogs and dragonflies. (German). Artist: WF Date: circa 1900

SWIMWEAR / BELGIUM 1913
Bathing beauties in polka dot headscarves and clinging one- piece bathing costumes take a stroll in the sea. One costume has side lacing on the legs & a deep V -neck. 1913

Three women wearing braided bathing frocks suitable for the summer months, available from Swan & Edgar s, department store. Date: 1909

Children wearing Swimeesy Buoy, invented two before in 1907. Date: 1909

A young lady displays her legs on the platform of her beach cabin. Date: 1916

Three Bathing Beauties
1905

Natural Hot Spring Bath at Bursa, Turkey
circa 1910s

Elbow Beach Hotel, Golf and Bathing Beach, Bermuda
circa 1910s

Casablanca, Morocco - Water Slide at the Swimming Pool
circa 1910s

Shankin Beach, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Date: circa 1910s

The Queens Bath - The Roman Baths, Bath, Somerset, England. Date: circa 1920s

Arcade and Roman Bath Date: 1746

Woman Waterskiing Date: 1948

Pool Deck Date: 1938

Pin up girl Date: 1945

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