Plage Collection

Le Touquet Paris-Plage
Tourism poster from French railway Chemin de Fer du Nord for Le Touquet on the coast of north-western France, the beach of Paris

Poster advertising Locarno beach in Nice, France. Water skiers are pulled along by speedboats

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - Le Royal Picardy - France. Date: circa early 1930s

Woman in ball gown of coral taffeta with silk ruffles. Robe de bal en taffetas corail a volants de gaze de soie. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by H

Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - France
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France - The Swiss Village and the entrance to the Forest Date: circa 1910s

Beach at LA Baule / Femina
A fine afternoon sur la plage at La Baule, France : the pyjamas are described as amusants

Deauville, France - La Rue Gontaut-Biron
Deauville, France on the Cote Fleurie (Flowers Coast) - La Rue Gontaut-Biron Date: circa 1905

Prince Philip of Greece, now Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured around the age of four, with his nanny, Emily Roose, probably on holiday at Berck Plage in France. Date: c.1925

BLACKS ON THE BEACH
Habitues of la plage nudiste (though only a few are totally bare) are shocked when they are joined by a black couple. Date: 1932

Djidjelli, Algeria - Casino and Grand Hotel de la Plage. circa 1920s

New public baths at Deauville De la Plage Fleurie
A view of the interior of the new public baths at Deauville De la Plage Fleurie, 1920s with fashionable bathers Date: 1920s

Deauville De la Plage Fleurie and the interior of the Atrium
A view of Deauville De la Plage Fleurie with the interior of the Atrium at the new public baths, 1920s Date: 1920s

La Plage
An oil painting of a French seaside scene, with lots of people crowding the beaches with picnic parasols. Colourful huts fill the edge of the beach. Date: circa 1918

On The Plage
An oil painting of three young boys playing on a French beach in the tide, with shovels in hand. They are wearing similar clothes, contrastingly different in colour. Date: circa 1918

Summer fashion ideas for women: a plage suit with a lozenge-patterned jerkin, and two swimsuits. Date: 1954

Pyjama wear at the Venice Lido, 1927 with Mrs Wallis Dunkels and Miss Beaumont Date: 1927

British High Society at Deauville, 1922 Date: 1922

A trio of summer dresses sketched by Soulie ideal for any fashionable plage, Paris, 1926 Date: 1926

Advert for the attractions of the Lido, Venice, 1926 (la Plage du Soleil et de Pyjamas) Date: 1926

British entertainers fly into Deauville
Jack Hylton, the famous band leader, Mrs Jack Hylton, actress Enid Stamp-Taylor and comedian, Leslie Henson photographed just after arriving in fashionable Deauville by plane

Grand Hotel d Angleterre, St Jean de Luz, France
Grand Hotel d Angleterre and Hotel de la Plage, St Jean de Luz, Basses Pyrenees, France. circa 1907

Life Savers on a Continental beach
Life savers stationed on an unidentified Continental beach in 1923. Any adventurous swimmer who dared to swim out a little further than what was deemed perfectly safe was forcibly rescued often with

Drawing a borzoi on the beach at Biarritz
Madame de Roberts, a well-known dog artist, with one of her sitters, a Borzoi, on the plage at Biarritz. Date: 1926

Deauville Devotees Potted on the Plage by Mundo
Caricatures of some familiar visitors to the fashionable French resort of Deauville. From left to right are Baron and Baroness Schroeders, behind whom is seen the Comte de Mardre. M. R

PEARL OF PLAGE 1926
A young lady in a matching hat & one-piece bathing costume in a bold geometric print with plunging v-neck & tassel trim is watched by a host of admirers from a jetty. Date: 1926

Nice Beach Postcard - 1920
On the beach at Nice, France Date: circa 1920

Mother and son on a French beach
On a sandy French plage, a mother drags her reluctant son away from his pleasures... Date: 1938

Hardelot Plage, Normandy, France
A man wearing a black hat walks from the beach bathing area at Hardelot Plage, Normandy, France. A bicycle leans on a restrictions notice banning wind surfers, motor cycles

Plage de l Anse Bernard and Cap-Vert in Dakar, Senegal
A path winds up along the Plage de l Anse Bernard (Anse Bernard Beach) towards a lazaret at the coast of the Atlantic Ocean with the Cap-Vert in the background - Dakar

Djidjelli, Algeria - Beach Avenue and Hotel de la Plage. Date: circa 1930

Avenue de la Gare - Berck-Plage, France Date: 1909

Biarritz - Grande Plage
The Grande Plage at Biarritz, with the Casino and the Hotel du Palais

Advert for the Lido, Venice, 1926 - La plage de soleil et des pyjamas Date: 1926

Loon-Plage, France -- soldiers resting, WW1
Loon-Plage, northern France -- soldiers resting during WW1. 1914-1915

Bathers at Palm Beach, Cannes, French Riviera
Sun bathers relaxing at Palm Beach, Cannes on the French Riviera in the 1930s. Date: 1934

The Carlton Plage, Cannes, French Riviera
A jetty at the Carlton plage (part of the Carlton Hotel) at Cannes on the fashionable French Riviera during the 1930s. Date: 1934

The Plage by A. Vallee
Scene on the beach at an unidentified French resort, with one stylish bather taking to the sea, while other fashionable types mingle on the rocks and beach. Date: 1925

Lord and Lady Weymouth at Antibes
Viscount Weymouth, only son and heir of the Marquess of Bath, pictured on honeymoon at Cap d Antibes on the French Riviera with his new wife, the former Hon. Daphne Vivian

Bathing Beauty 1926
A bathing beauty and her admirers on a hot August day: The Pearl of the Plage. Date: 1926

Dinard - LA Plage
The sands at Dinard, on the Cote d Emeraude of northwest France. Date: circa 1905

Dieppe - Crowded Plage
The crowded beach at Dieppe at l heure du bain - though in fact, there don t seem many prepared to brave the cold nothern waters... Date: circa 1905

Deauville racecourse with crowd, France
Deauville Plage Fleurie racecourse with crowd and grandstand, France. Date: circa 1928

Advert for the Lido, Venice, 1927 - la plage du soleil et des pyjamas - centred on the Excelsior Hotel 1927

A view of La Potiniere Caf鬠Deauville, France
A view of La Potiniere Caf鬠 Plage Fleurie, Deauville, France Date: 1920s

La plage (The beach). Boy & girl playing a sandcastles on the beach. Frence. Date: 1910

Toward Paris Plage - lights on tower - Armistice Night
Looking toward Paris Plage - lights on tower. Armistice Night, 11th November 1918. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Base camp, Paris Plage. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Watercolour by Alan Fraser titled The Cupid of Paris-Plage dated 1905. Date: 1905

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