Diving Collection (page 3)

Christmas Morning Swimming Handicap in Serpentine 1906
Various scenes of the annual competition at Serpentine lake at Hyde Park, London on Christmas day morning. Date: 1906

Divers gathering pearl-oysters in Western Australia waters. The diver in the background is being staged - a process where he is held for up to half an hour at a certain depth from the surface so that

Frogs diving into water by W. H. Ellam

In the Diving Birds House at London Zoo animals
In, the, Diving, Birds, House, at, London, Zoo, animals, Watercolour, painting, Charles, T, Howard, 12021942

Comic postcard, Large woman diving into the sea Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman and man diving into the sea, with the mans annoyed wife standing watching Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Boating at the seaside - This is better than fishing Date: 20th century

c. 1880s Japan - swimming, diving and boats, young Japanese men
c.1880s Japan - swimming, diving and boats, young Japanese men

School swimming competition
Competitors in school swimming competition. Date: circa 1930s

Polar bear takes a dive at London Zoo
Polar bears movement frozen as it dives into pool at London Zoo. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Boating at the seaside - better than fishing Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man watching woman dive into the sea Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump couple in the sea - don t dive on an empty stomach! Date: 20th century

Sir John Lavery at his easel in Palm Springs, painting Doris Delavigne, Lady Castlerosse, who is seated on a diving board. Date: 1938

Breathing Apparatus for Diving 1913
Photographs showing the front and back of a man wearing the latest breathing equipment to dive underwater, reaching a submarine of depths of about 200 feet, for about an hour

Fossil skeleton of an extinct Anoplotherium commune. Copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy

Advertisement for Maison Lyons chocolates showing art deco style figures indulging in various sport and leisure activities

The Treasure Ship in Fairy Seas, London Hippodrome
The Christmas production at the London Hippodrome, using its famous water tank to enact an underwater wcene about treasure seekers beneath the sea

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

Medieval game of diving for apples, while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk him in the tub. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Medieval games: boy diving for apples on a bench while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk the boy in the tub (top)

Diving lizard and hump-nosed lizard
Diving lizard, Uranoscodon superciliosa (supercilious lizard, Lacerta superciliosa) and hump-nosed lizard, Lyriocephalus scutatus (scutated lizard, Lacerta scutata)

Eddystone Lighthouse, diving bell, and an underwater tunnel
John Smeatons Eddystone Lighthouse, men in an underwater diving bell, and plans for an underwater tunnel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Diving bell with two divers on board, circa 1820. An improved version of Edmond Halleys diving bell, this hermetically sealed diving chamber was supplied by air through a copper pipe from

Personalities beside the pool and on the beach -- Lady Cynthia Mosley by the bathing pool, Cap d Antibes (top) and Cocktail Time

Clifton Gardens, Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia
Clifton Gardens, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, showing the pavilion, a swimming pool and a diving tower. Date: circa 1908

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

West Indian Pearl Fishers
A group of West Indian pearl fishers in boats dive for pearl amidst larger galley ships. West Indians and Westerners group on the land behind to trade for the pearls. Date: 1494

Dunlop advertisement - arriving at a summer country club
Advertisement for Dunlop tyres showing smart cars arriving at a country club for the evening. Beyond the cars can be seen an art deco club house

Advert, Samson Barnett Diving Apparatus
Advertisement for Samson Barnett, Diving Apparatus Manufacturer to the Royal Navy. 1862

Submarine divers 1869
Divers wearing diving armour with flexible arms and helmet with eye-plates of strong glass, with a fresh supply of oxygen been pumped in through a long hose to allow the operator to say under

Polish poster for a film, Wraki (Wrecks), directed by Ewa Petelska and Czeslaw Petelski. circa 1956

Danish poster, underwater film in colour, Greece, Aqua Film Co, with commentary by Henrik Schwensen, poster designed by Lehmann. circa 1950s

Russian poster, sea diving -- young people, you are called, a world of undiscovered depths, amazing beauty. circa 1930s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 151
Coleoptera: Cybister roeselii (Roesel?s Diving Beetle, a Mainland-European species) [Plant: Hottonia palustris (Water Violet)] Date: 1824-39

Three RAF Hawker aircraft diving in formation. Date: circa 1930s

Swimming Closeup Date: 1938

Frolicking in the Surf Date: 1948

Pin up girl Date: 1945

Diving Tackle Date: 1930

Exploration in Vigo Bay, diving for treasure sunk 1870
Exploration in Vigo Bay, diving for treasure at the bottom of the sea. Stories told that in 1702 a plate ship, galleons and vessels bringing barbaric gold and pearls, was in combat

Diving-bell used in construction of the Thames Tunnel. Date: 19th Century

DIVING FOR PEARLS
Diving for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Date: 1870

DIVING AT RACE START
Four swimmers prepare to dive at the start of a race. Date: circa 1895

Etretat mixed bathing 1870s
Mixed bathing and plunging from a wheeled diving board which can be moved as the tides ebb and flow Date: 1870

Man diving and swimming
The Art of Diving and Swimming - various diving positions, various swimming strokes Date: circa 1900

Diver lays mines 1915
A diver lays mines from a submarine. Date: 1915

Hartman - Diving Apparatus
Professor Hartman uses his pressurised diving apparatus in the Gulf of Napoli, Italy. Date: 1926

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