Cool Collection (page 4)

German couple bathing in a pool
To enable Fritz and Frau to cool their portly persons -- a plump German couple bathing in a swimming pool, watched by two slimmer people sitting on a diving board

Woman taking shower
A refreshing shower during the heat wave in Stockholm 24/7 1943. Date: 24th July 1943

Head Warmer / Cooler
Using spiral aluminium tubing, through which hot or cold liquids are made to flow, this device can be used to either cool or warm a patients head. Date: 1900

Outback Camping Snooze
Bushwalkers sleeping off an 18 mile walk in the cool of the evening. Soon camp fires will be lighted and these hungry walkers will have a well- earned meal! Date: 1940s

Berkeley Square
The gardens of Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, made famous in the Manning Sherwin son A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1915). Date: early 1930s

Preserving Apples
Apples keep better of they are wrapped in paper and placed in a cool dark drawer. Date: 1930s

Cooling off in Trafalgar Square
Two little girls cool off during a heat in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Date: 1929

Musicians in a London street, 1940s
A group of musicians (identifiable by the large double bass carried by one man, and a record discussed by some others) gathered together in an unidentified London street in the late 1940s. c.1945

Satyr and Traveller
THE SATYR & THE TRAVELLER " Upon the satyrs demanding a reason why he blew again, he replied, to cool his dish." Date: 1912

Sea Siren outfits, 1966
Some suggested high fashion outfits for Cowes during the sixties. A dazzlingly striped cat suit in jersey by Jean Varon on the left and a pirate red towelling shorts with white piping

London Life front cover, 24 September 1966
Front cover of London Life, the short-lived but very groovy magazine which captured the style and spirit of sixties London briefly from 1964 to 1966

London Life front cover featuring the model Ro
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

London Life front cover featuring Ungaro
Front cover by Brian Duffy of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Suburban Sunday in the back garden
A suburban Sunday in the back garden. Mother and son keep cool with bottles of drink, while the dog laps up a glass of Caribbean lemonade. Dad, overheated, gives himself a break from mowing the lawn

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

Delineator cover, July 1928
Summery front cover illustration for the Delineator magazine featuring a woman with a sleek looking cropped hair style holding a long glass of lemonade, or perhaps a cocktail?

Lear / Nonsense / Poole
There was a Young Lady of Poole, whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil by the aid of some oil, that ingenious Young Lady of Poole

Daddy always tells me to keep cool by Merlin Enabnit
Curvaceous pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) posed provocatively, dressed in a black swimsuit and large sun hat. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Italy Rome Pincio
The Pincio Gardens are a favourite place to stroll in the cool of the evening : you can enjoy a fine view of the Vatican and saint Peter s

Mechanical Cooling
A " punkah" -type ventilator for keep cool during warm weather or heat wave, comprising of a large fan operated by foot pedals

Cool Arguments!!!

Fetching Xmas Dinner
Fetching the Christmas dinner - families who didn t possess big ovens would take their food to the bakers to get it cooked, then hurry home with it before it had time to cool

Folkestone High St
Pedestrians enjoying the cool shade of Folkestone High Street during the summer months

Ww1 / Cooling Gun Barrel
A German soldier puts wet rags over an over-heated artillery gun barrel to cool it down

ICE-BOX
The Spanish, it seems, use their ice-boxes chiefly to keep their wine cool and their fruit fresh

Female Type Resting 1931
An elegant woman sits relaxing in a cool white dress on a hot summer day

Emerging from Pool 1960S
A happy female swimmer, wearing a one-piece bathing costume in three colours with a false belt & belt loops, walks backwards down the pool steps into the cool water

Nightingale / Scutari / Cool
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE In Scutari, Florence Nightingale attends a patient

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