Bathing Collection (page 14)

Hastings, East Sussex - 3 brave lady swimmers on a cold day
Hastings, East Sussex - Three brave lady swimmers on a cold day! Date: circa 1920s

USA - Bathing girl leaps into the sea off a diving board and suggests that everyone join her! Date: circa 1950s

We re Here For Our Annual (Holiday) - smart young folk playing on the edge of the lido pool Date: 1930

Five girls doing hand-stands on the Beach - USA Date: circa 1904

Two women on the Beach - Summer season at Deauville, Normandy, France - the rush sun hat is providing necessary protection against the heat of the rays... Date: 1925

Bathing Scene - Atlantic City, USA
A rather magnificent view of the packed beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1902

Bathing Scene and Boardwalk Audience - Atlantic City, USA
Bathing Scene and Boardwalk Audience - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1908

Elbow Beach Hotel and Bathing Beach, Bermuda Date: 1936

Brighton Beach and Palace Pier - East Sussex Date: circa 1900

Old French Salt teaching a young lady to swim in the sea
An old Salt French Sailor is teaching a young Lady how to swim. He rather sardonically states that she must be good at drinking a her early attempts seem to be involving the ingestion of a certain

Bathing Beach and Landing - Indian Point, Hudson River, USA, Now the site of Indian Point Energy Center is a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York

Llandudno, North Wales - with Bathing Machines on beach. Date: 1903

Taking a shower in a fine marble bathtub Date: 1900s

Riccoine, Italy - The Green Pearl of the Adriatic Coast. Date: circa 1930s

New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Savin Rock - Bathing Scene. Date: circa 1930s

Pretty French girl in fishscale swimsuit reclining
A pretty French model in fish scale pattern swimsuit and floral silk headscarf reclining seductively on a photographic studio beach. Date: late 1910s

City Baths, Anuradhapura, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Ancient City Baths, Anuradhapura, North Central Province, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Bournemouth Club, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Swimming pool at the Bournemouth Club, Windward Road, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1930

Young model in a bath
A young model posing in a bathroom. Date: circa 1970s

Fashionable bathing suits of the 1920s
The cover illustration of The Spheres womens section features an array of fashionable outfits. The woman on the right sports an American wasp-stripe bathing suit

Bathing in the Ganges by Fortunino Matania
With our special artist in India: a wonderful sight in the metropolis of Hinduism. Thousands of pilgrims, fakirs and other worshippers bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges, Benares, India

The Strand Roman Bath Reconstructed by Matania
The roman bath in the Strand, its probable appearance in antiquity envisaged by the Sphere artist and enthusiast in Roman antiquities, Fortunino Matania

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

Mr Dale Bourne & Mrs Beryl Mills at Monte Carlo Beach
Mrs Beryl Mills in a yellow bathing suit and Mr Dale Bourne, golfer pictured by the Monte Carlo pool. They were both guests of Lady Hindlips house part at Cap Ferrat. Date: 1932

Teddy bear on the beach. Date: circa 1900s

The Cult of Nudity - sunbathing fashions, 1930s
Page from The Sphere reporting on the growing vogue for sunbathing fashions, particularly backless swimsuits - a style that began at the fashionable French resorts of the Riviera

Elsa Schiaparelli Pour le Sport advertisment
Advertisment for Elsa Schiaparellis first shop, Pour le Sport, in 4, Rue de la Paix, in Paris. Her first collection consisted of knitwear

Soldiers bathing in a brewery during World War I
Soldiers bathing in a brewery in fermenting vats converted to hot baths during World War I within reach of shell fire Date: 1915

Palamos, Spain, 1960S
Holidaymakers on the beach at Palamos, on the Spanish Costa Brava. Date: 1966

Naked on the Beach
Two bathers relax on a Danish beach : one is wearing her bathing dress, her companion is not. Date: 1916

Mixed Russian Sauna / C19
A mixed Russian sauna - men and women pour water over themselves and each other and beat each other with branches. Date: early 19th century

Male Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - Diving off a high board to start their routine... Date: 1961

Ardwick Green Industrial School, Manchester - Camp Bathing
Boys from Ardwick Green Industrial School, Manchester sea bathing at their annual camp. Date: Date unknown

Holidaymakers at Oddicombe Beach, Torquay, Devon
Aerial view of holidaymakers enjoying the sunshine on Oddicombe Beach, Torquay, Devon. circa 1960s

1960s swimwear
Model on the left wears a matelot blue stretch Enkalon, hip-pocketed and stitched in white with cutaway sides. On the right a bold black and white Helanca bib-top

Myrna Loy in a bathing suit, 1927 Date: 1927

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

WW2 Poster -- Typhus, How Is It Spread?
Information poster on typhus and how it is spread. Colour lithograph, British Army anti-typhus medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

Princess Margaret at the Bath Club
Princess Margaret (1930-2002), pictured in her swimsuit at the Bath Club at which she won a cup for little swimmers up to the age of nine. Date: 1939

The beach, Teignmouth, Devon, England
The beach ( The Sands ), Teignmouth, Devon England. Date: circa 1906

Ulysses and the Sirens by Wilmot Lunt
Three bathing belles in brightly-hued swimsuits, sunbathe on a rock and catch the attention of a young man in a passing speedboat. Date: 1927

Brass Band beach concert, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A brass band giving a concert on the beach at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. A row of bathing machines on wheels can be seen at the waters edge. circa 1910

Delhi - the banks of the River Yamuna Date: circa 1920

Miner washing at a tin bath, South Wales
A South Wales miner washes at a tin bath in front of the fire, while his wife sits mending socks

Blankenberghe, Belgium - a beach troubador, thoroughly entertaining a group of children in their bathing costumes

Bathing-time by Rene Vincent
Art deco illustration depicting bathers with billowing towels and cloaks gathered around a car at the beach. The caption reads: Modern summer holiday-makers seen through an artists eyes

On Margate Beach 1920S
On the beach at Margate: three ladies sit in deckchairs, while two boys in bathing costumes sit, one on the sand, one astride a toy bulldog

Exhibitions / France / Paris
Bird s-eye view of the site of the exhibition, erected on the Champ de Mars, where the Tour Eiffel was subsequently located; note the splendid bathing boat on the Seine

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