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Stewed PlumsStewed plums served in a glass bowl, with decorative dessert dishes. Date: 1930s
Bathing at Wembley 1930SSunbathers on the banks of the River Thames at Wembley during a summer heatwave. Date: early 1930s
Fitted Bathroom 1903Example of a fitted bathroom, with tiled walls and porcelain plunge bath, perfecto lavatory etc. taken from Maple & Cos book: Healthy Homes Date: 1903
MILKMAIDSTwo milkmaids on their way to market with their milk. Date: 1897
Girl playing hockeyA female hockey player from the Edwardian period, clearly disputing the advice from Medicus (insert) that women should, avoid all excess in the field games which are suitable only to sporting men
Hotel Great Central, near Regents Park, London - claimed to be in the healthiest part of London. Date: circa 1910
Allenburys Foods for InfantsThe Milky Way to Health. Depicts happy healthy children. Art Deco style. Artist: Gladys Peto Date: 1925
Good Things Brochure - Guide to living a healtier lifeGood Things Brochure - Guide to living a healtier and happier life
Large group photo, Montecatini Spa, ItalyLarge group photo of men and women at Montecatini Thermal Baths and Spa, Tuscany, Italy, on 17 August 1919. Date: 1919
Exercising at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, USAMen exercising (doing calesthenics) at a military training camp, Camp Travis, near San Antonio, Texas, USA. Date: early 20th century
VALUEOrive toothpaste ad
Dutch boy scout eating at camp, HollandA Dutch boy scout eating at camp, Holland
People on skis in the snow, SwitzerlandPeople on skis in the snow in Switzerland, balancing on one leg
German postcard, women athletes walkingGerman postcard showing women athletes walking along in step with each other. Date: 1920s
German postcard, young couple walkingGerman postcard showing a young Aryan couple walking in the countryside. The suggestion is to encourage young people to go for healthy walks rather than spend their time boozing! Date: circa 1930s
Rolling Chair Parade, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. People who don t wish to walk are wheeled along a boardwalk. Youngs Million Dollar Pier can be seen in the distance. Date: circa 1910
Inside spa hotel St Gellert, Budapest, HungaryView inside the spa hotel St Gellert in Budapest, Hungary, with people swimming in a pool. Date: 1930s
Mineral spa in Budapest, Hungary
Allinson wholemeal bread advertisement, WW1Advertisement for Allinson wholemeal bread from the First World War, a period when the nation was encouraged to eat wholemeal, rather than white, bread. Date: 1918
Lord Wooltons message to kitchen staff, WW2Lord Wooltons message to kitchen staff, stressing the importance of well cooked food and the avoidance of waste during the Second World War. Date: 1940s
Pug Peter -- convalescing at the seasidePug Peter -- Peter feels better. Dog convalescing at the seaside in a green wooden bathchair. Date: 1905
Advert Mellins fresh milk for babiesMellins food, fresh cows milk food infants, medical opinion places the superiority of fresh milk over dried milk foods beyond all question. Date: 1916
Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food 1914Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food for the Happy Baby. Showing a healthy looking baby holding Savory & Moores tin. 1914
Advert for tinned Milkmaid Cream 1914Advertisement for tinned Milkmaid Cream by Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co of Eastcheap, London. Perfect with fresh, stewed, canned or bottled fruit, in tea and coffee
Healthcare for children under five years 1947If your child is under five. Issued by the Ministry of Food. It isn t only the tiny baby, but the child right up to five years, who needs cod liver oil and orange juice every day
Advertisement for Savory & Moores Food for the Happy Baby. Showing a healthy looking baby drinking from a bottle. Date: 1914
Advertisement for Enos Fruit Salt, with an idyllic harvest scene at the centre. Promoted as a way of keeping healthy in hot weather. Date: 1914
Advert for the Ministry of Food 1946Is your child missing something ? You are, naturally, eager to do the best for your under-five child. And if you don t give him his Cod liver Oil and orange juice, you ve a reason
Exercise class at Ministry of Health, 1938A health and beauty class formed by seventy female members of the staff at the Ministry of Health, using one of the conference rooms in Whitehall to indulge in their after-work hours exercises
Advert for the Ministry of Food 1942Home-guards of health. Of course you don t want to be a food crank. But it is useful to know that there are certain homely foods that can do a marvellous job of protecting you
The Youth of New MoscowTrue children of the revolution - young, smilling communists in New Moscow. Date: 1932
Fruit Label -- orangesFruit Label -- extra selected oranges (in Dutch), depicting two happy and healthy children. Date: 20th century
Fruit Label -- textFruit Label -- Fine oranges for beautiful girls, red oranges for red lips and no lipstick required, all done by the vitamines [sic] of these oranges. Date: 20th century
Poster design for Quebec Winter Sports, via Canadian Pacific, showing a couple on skis in in a snowy landscape. Date: 20th century
Young woman with bicycle and hockey stickA young woman with a bicycle and a hockey stick, standing in front of a window
Wiltshire DownlandA cyclist on a tandem stops to take in the lovely Wiltshire Dowland, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1930s
Doulting AbbeyThe Abbey, or Tithe Barn, Doulting, Somerset, England, built at the end of the 14th century. Date: 1930s
Bicycles by the ThamesParked bicycles (including a tandem) along the tree-lined River Thames at Datchet, Berkshire, England. Date: 1940s
Ozone Terrace, intended as a healthy street name, near the sea at Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s
London Open Air SchoolA class of schoolgirls sitting outdoors at their desks at an open air school on the Euston Road, London, England. Date: early 1930s
Schoolgirls 1930SThe classroom windows are thrown wide open to ensure that the schoolgirls get healthy fresh air at this open air school in Euston Road, London, England. Date: early 1930s
British Gymnastics Display with announcer & seated audienceUnintentionally hilarious photographic postcard of a British Gymnastics Display with announce/trainer (armed with a megaphone) and a very reserved seated audience
Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905
Germany - The Eccentric Weisgarber FamilyThe Eccentric Vegetarian Weisgarber Family from Blankenburg (Harz) - a town and health resort in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at the north foot of the Harz Mountains
The healthy and the sick. Plate 57 of The Disasters of WarGOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The healthy and the sick. Plate 57 of The Disasters of War. Etching
Weight graph of fed childrenGraph to show weight fluctuation in Bradford children fed meals at school, 1907 Date: 1907
Three boysThree schoolboys, one eating an apple, 1898 Date: 1898
Advert for Cow & Gate formula milk food 1942Ready for anything ! His mother took the best advice and gave her child the food that has won a supreme reputation all over the world