Swim Collection (page 5)

Danish Swimmer 1903
A Danish swimmer Date: 1903

Advert for Simpson lastex swimwear 1938
Lastex rules the waves. Two women posing with their swim-suits made from wool lastex. 1938

Swimming suit and bathing dress 1907
Swimming suit and a bathing dress for Trouville. Date: 1907

Floating swimming bath in the Thames at Charing Cross
View inside the floating swimming bath in the River Thames at Charing Cross, Central London. Date: 1875

Slix bathing suit, 1938
A slix swim suit in lined oil silk, shirred and draped, never shrinks or sags and telescopically fits all figures. Worn together with a Slix cape in the same fabric. Date: 1938

Members of the Aquashow Synchronised Swim Troupe (off-duty) at Bournemouth. Date: 1963

Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again
Bournemouth, Dorset - female members of the Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again up a tree! Date: 1962

Sychronised Swimming Team, Bournemouth - group of performers
Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team, Bournemouth - group of male performers - some obviously in clown roles surrounding the hunky star of the show. Date: 1961

Sychronised Swimming Team - on Syd Brookes Car
Sychronised Swimming Team (" some of the Water-Babe s" ) - on Syd Brookes (possibly their manager?) Car, East Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth, Dorset, in front of the Chesterwood Hotel

Sychronised Swimming Team, Bournemouth - off-duty party
Sychronised Swimming Team, Bournemouth - participants off-duty at Pat & Lizs Party Date: 1962

Female Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - show
Female Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - practising for the show, the final dress rehearsal, involving multiple performers, floats and a large lotus flower. Date: 1961

Synchronised Swimming Team End of Season Artists Ball
Synchronised Swimming Team end of season Artists Ball - Royal Exeter Hotel, Bournemouth, Dorset. Date: 1962

Rhyl, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wales - Open-air pool with scaffold diving platform and stands for a large intended audience. Used for large set-piece synchronised swimming galas and shows Date: 1957

Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth
8-strong mixed (7 men, 1 woman) Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth, Dorset. Date: circa 1965

Aquashow - Sychronised Swimming Show Participants
Aquashow at Rhyl - Sychronised Swimming Show Participants - Princes Water Phantasy in an open air pool (" very cold!!" ) Date: 1957

British seaside bathers - fine selection of bathing costumes
British seaside bathers in a fine selection of bathing costumes and swim caps. Date: circa late 1920s

Aquafantasia - Sychronised Swimming Show, Bournemouth
Aquafantasia - Sychronised Swimming Show, Pier Approach Baths, Bournemouth Date: 1960

Aquafantasia - Sychronised Swimming Show Participants, Pier Approach Bath, Bournemouth. Date: 1954

Members of Synchronised Swimming Team - Indian Routine - with Pancho. Date: 1960

Singular Accident - drowning in a swimming pool. circa 1876

German seaside costumes 1885
Summer scenes at the seaside in 1885. 1885

Fashionable bathing dress 1912
A distinctive bathing dress, in navy-blue bunting decorated with white braid and turkish towelling coat. 1912

Swimwear for the sea and sun 1933
Models wearing three different style woollen swimsuits by Jantzen. Date: 1933

Advert for Leyland swim caps 1933
Advertisement for Leyland, bathing cap, fits like a glove, without ridges or ruckless. Has shell ear-pieces for comfort. 1933

Forma woollen swim suits 1933
Models wearing backless one-piece bathing wear with a stripe theme. 1933

Advert for Debenham & Freebody swimming suits 1933
Advertisement for Debenham and Freebody and their smart swimming suit fashions for 1933. Models posed wearing belted one-piece costumes (left) Ribbed light top in bright colours and dark shorts

Five boys, one swimming, on a birthday card
Five boys, one of them swimming, on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Pretty bathing dress in alpaca 1906
Woman wearing a black swim dress with embroidered applications in white. Date: 1906

Duck and ducklings on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Anas specularis, Bronze-winged duck
Watercolour, c.1928-1937? by Miss A. Ellen Prout (fl.1920s). Held in the Library and Archives

Municipal Swimming Pool, High Point, North Carolina, USA. Date: 1941

The Georgian Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
The Georgian Hotel, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, with its own private beach, swimming pool and over 100 rooms of southern charm

Hippo, elephant, mouse, pig and rabbit
A hippo goes for a swim, despite the No Bathing sign. A mouse throws him a line, thinking he might be drowning. An elephant, a pig and a rabbit stand watching. Date: circa 1933

Boy swimmer holding on to wooden beam
Boy swimmer in the water, holding on to a wooden beam. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Balkan Indecision
WW1 - An illustrated personification of Romanias and Bulgarias indecision and role in the war. The two countries are personified as two men in conversation to decide whether to take a swim in

Mercedes Gleitze attempting to swim English Channel
Mercedes Gleitze, the London typist, attempting to swim the English Channel; the swimmer in the water, with boats occupied by expert witnesses. Date: 1927

Students at Commercial Road Swimming Baths, Bedford Date: 1903

Cartoon, A Secret, WW1
Cartoon, A Secret, showing two men bathing in the sea. One man tells the other a secret concerning the war, but warns him not to repeat it, as people will think him a coward. Date: 1915

Advert for McMallum colour dyes 1937
Choose swimsuits bearing the sundip label, knitwear which carries the McMallum Dyed label, safe in the knowledge that they are not only the finest quailty and style

Rissos DOLPHIN - Being helped to swim by researcher (Grampus griseus)

Siberian Lemming - adult sniffs air prior to crossing a puddle (Lemmings can swim). (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Siberian Lemming - adult crosses a puddle (Lemmings can swim). (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf first swim with Mother (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Happy group of wolf cubs, Mauritius
A happy group of wolf cubs on a sandy beach in Mauritius

Boy scouts swimming in the sea, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America. Date: 1951

Advert for Debenham & Freebody bathing wear 1937
Pure wool low cut leg swimwear for women, with rope tie around the waist. 1937

Jules Gautier, stunt swimmer, with boat crew
Jules Gautier, the Manacled Swiimmer, with boat crew on the river. Date: 1910

Scouts exercising at camp, Fiji, South Pacific
Scouts exercising at camp before a morning swim, Fiji, South Pacific

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