Bathing Collection (page 2)

Cromer Beach 1930S
Rough seas on the coast of Norfolk at Cromer, England, with its bathing huts on the beach and pier in the background

Bathing Belle Parade
Three disgruntled beauty queens look particularly annoyed at a sassy woman in a red bikini holds a placard boasting that she can cook too!

Bathing Machines / 1883
A vast assortment of bathing machines

Woman Washing / Basin 1927
An attractive woman wearing a patterned dressing gown washes in a basin

Canoeist about to Canoe
Girl in her one-piece swimming costume & bathing cap with checker board trim going off for a paddle

Girls on Beach / Klods-Han
Two girls at the seaside, one lying at the waters edge talking to her friend

Three German Sunlovers
One-piece bathing costumes for men & women. His is striped, the ladys ones have V -necks & short legs. The lady in the sleeveless costume wears bathing shoes or espadrilles

Bathing a Dog
A lucky dog getting a shower in a roll-top bath!

Crag Path and Beach, Aldeburgh, Suffolk - Painted by artist Charles Howard for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Tropical Bathing Beach at Lummus Park, Miami Beach, Florida
The Tropical Bathing Beach at Lummus Park, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Date: 1937

Child and dog lifeguard
Young child wearing red swimming costume sitting on the beach with her black scottish terrier, both wearing sun glasses. Date: 1929

Children paddling and looking out to sea
Mermaids. A back view of five children paddling at the seaside; they wear red stripey bathing drawers. Date: C.1905

Major Metcalfe, Mrs F. Cripps, and Lady Alexandra Metcalfe
Edward Dudley Metcalfe, MVO, MC, (16 January 1887 18 November 1957), known as Fruity Metcalfe, officer in the British Indian Army, a close friend and equerry of Edward VIII

Traditional Japanese bathing in upright wooden tub, heated by a small side stove Date: 1930

The Beach, Shanklin, Isle of Wight
The Beach, Shanklin, near Sandown, Isle of Wight, England. Showing Bathing Huts & Rowing Boats Date: 1910s

Two Babies by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a red dress has been bathing her doll. Date: 1930

Water Baby by Muriel Dawson -- a little child in a bathtub. Date: 1939

British soldiers bathing in flooded shell hole by Matania
The only advantage of the wet weather on the Western Front - a novel swimming bath used by British soldiers to bathe in. A scene captured at the front by The Sphere special artist, Fortunino Matania

Holidaymakers in the sea at Margate, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette swimwear advertisement, 1962
Jolly advertisement for Silhouette swimwear featuring a number of smiling (and, perhaps a little vacuous-looking) women on a beach wearing some brightly printed swimwear

One Mans Meat- by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, looks away in horror (or boredom) as his owner peers a little more closely with the help of a pair of binoculars at a bevy of bathing beauties at

Geisha girls at the seaside, Japan
Two Geisha girls in elegant Western-style striped bathing costumes recline on a studio beach set

Comic Card / Fat Lady
I don t care twopence what happens. Thats how I feel at Clacton-on-Sea. says a fat woman wearing a red bathing suit paddling in the sea

Nice Beach Postcard / 1920
Ingenious machines enable bathers to go a few metres out to where the Baie des Anges is deep enough for plunging or diving

Ladies and Bath Machine
Ladies on a beach beside their bathing machine

Aristocratic French lady bathing and dressing
An aristocratic French lady is helped by her maids to bathe and dress

Comic postcard, Enormous man with woman in the sea Date: 20th century

Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Campbell Parade and Esplanade, Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with many cars parked. Date: circa 1930

The Bystander - Surf riders front cover
Front cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration by C. Rebel Stanton of three girls in red bathing costumes surf riding - a sort of combined forerunner of surfing and water skiing. Date: 1929

Veet advertisement, 1926
Advertisement for Veet hair removal cream from 1926 - don t let disfiguring growths of superfluous hair destroy your charm and daintiness any longer

Bathers and Bathing Machines at Scheveningen, The Hague, The Netherlands. Note the Bathing Machine owner about to strap his horse to one of the Bathing machines to pull it further inland away

Jolly Bathing girl on the beach at Giulianova, Italy
A jolly bathing girl standing atop a lightweight oared catamaran on the beach at Giulianova, a coastal town and commune in the province of Teramo of central Italy. Date: circa late 1930s

Seafront, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Seafront, Aldeburgh, near Thorpeness, Suffolk, England. Showing Bathing Machines Date: 1900s

Aerial view of beach, Galveston, Texas, USA
Aerial view of the beach, Galveston, Texas, USA. Date: circa 1930

Murdoch Bath House, Galveston, Texas, USA
The Murdoch Bath House, by the Sea Wall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, USA. 1911

Beauty on Parade - a beach belle by David Wright
Front cover of The American Weekly featuring an illustration by David Wright, of a red-haired woman in a green swimsuit relaxing on the beach. Date: 1948

The Beach at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Date: circa 1909

Un Bon Coup de Pied by Nick
A twenties bathing belle in a fetching red swimsuit, energetically kicks a beach ball as she splashes around in the surf. Date: 1927

The Bath Houses - Barranco, Peru. Date: circa 1910s

Public schoolboys at Tidworth Pennings camp
Boys enjoying the camp bath at Tidworth Pennings camp on Salisbury Plain, where four thousand public schoolboys of the Junior Division of the Officers Training Corps were put through their paces by

Woman & Dog on Beach
A young woman in a red swimsuit, with her white bulldog on the beach. A man with a black poodle looks at them admiringly

The beach at Juan-les-Pins, 1929
Photograph of the beach at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera showing how popular the resort, and the rest of the Cote d Azur, had become during the summer months. Date: 1929

Paddling at Heyst
A group of children in striped bathing costumes paddle happily in the surf at Heyst sur Mer, Belgium. Date: circa 1905

The North Bay Bathing Pool, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Date: circa 1920s

Mellneraggen beach, Memel, Lithuania
Mellneraggen beach, Memel (now Klaipeda), Lithuania, with bathers. Date: circa 1930s

Whittey Bathing Beach - Black & white Row of bathing huts - very crowded beach. Part of Box 145 Boswell Collection - East Coast. Date: circa 1900

The Serpentine Lido
Bathers using the diving board and paddling pool at the Serpentine Lido, Hyde Park, central London, England. Date: early 1930s

Not Every Bathing Dress Spells a Plunge in the River! by Barribal. 1925

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