Swimming Collection (page 26)

From Then Till Now: At the Seaside. From Look and Learn no. 83 (17 August 1963)

Fliptail the Otter

Boy with Genie (?)

Playing sandcastles

Girl crying

Boating

Advert for J. Roussel swim suits for men & women 1935
The new swim suit by Roussel in airollasta Swim suits by Roussel gently control the figure and mould it to slim beauty without the least restriction to the most vigorous movement. 1935

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1939
Stepping sunwards. For gay feet to flash over sunsplahed beaches, new Dolcis sandals, rediant with glowing colour or brilliant contrasts

Bathers in Scarborough
Bathers at North Bay, Scarborough, 1911 Date: 1911

Fan-shaped drawing of fish swimming upstream. Date 18--

A bare chance. Date 1879. Published by Currier & Ives. A bare chance. Date 1879. Published by Currier & Ives

The Amphibians, 1927 by Peter
A somewhat sybaritic seaside scene showing a young, fashionable men and women having fun at the Lido, buying fruit from a seller. Date: 1927

Sea bathing, Metropolitan Hotel Long Branch, New Jersey

The shores of old England

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth - The great Coney Island water carnival... Poster showing performers diving and clowns in the ocean at Coney Island, New York. Date c1898

Sponge gathering and preparing for market

Sponge fishing. Date c1897 Sept. 13

Swimming pool built by children of town, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Date 1938 July

The embankment and Kursaal, (i. e. Cursaal), Ostend, Belgium
The embankment and Kursaal, (i.e. Cursaal), Ostend, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The embankment, west part, Ostend, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Blankenberghe, baigneurs. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The beach and Kursaal, (i. e. Cursaal), Blankenberghe, Belgi
The beach and Kursaal, (i.e. Cursaal), Blankenberghe, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The hotels, Blankenberghe, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The beach at high water, Ostend, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

As a Duck to Water by Lindsay Cable
A lone female bather in a fetching red and yellow bathing suit sits on the end of a pier or jetty and gazes into the water below. Date: 1927

Bathing on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1903
The crowded beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, favoured resort of the Philadelphians. Almost everyone on the sand is wearing some form of swimwear

The beach and hotels, Blankenberghe, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The beach and the Kursaal, (i. e. Cursaal), Ostend, Belgium
The beach and the Kursaal, (i.e. Cursaal), Ostend, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Hot Dog by William Heath Robinson
An ingenious central heating device for bathing on chilly morning of the early part of the season. A smug and rather rotund gentleman tests out a typically convoluted Heath Robinson invention

Sea Urchins by Charles Robinson
Lovely illustration showing two girls in pretty swimsuits finding a small baby in a rock pool. Date: 1927

What are the Wild Waves Saying by Blam
A couple steal a quick kiss while swimming in the sea. Date: 1927

A Pretty Penny by Batcherlor
A glamorous bathing belle with a fashionable paper parasol poses elegantly on a penny coin. Date: 1927

The beach, Dinard, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Beach and casino, Dinard, France. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Trooping of the Colour by Norman Keene
A group of young women in an array of rainbow bright swimwear skip and run along a beach. Date: 1927

The seashore and Kursaal, (i. e. Cursaal), Blankenberghe, Be
The seashore and Kursaal, (i.e. Cursaal), Blankenberghe, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The pier and shore, Blankenberghe, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The beach and the sea, Blankenberghe, Belgium. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

A Study in Contrasts at La Plage by Laurie Tayler
A young woman in a fashionable, sporty green swimsuit emerges from the sea at Le Touquet to be met by her elderly maid with a towel. Date: 1927

The Sketch Summer Number front cover 1934
Stylish, graphic front cover of The Sketch Summer Number featuring a swimmer surprised to find a fish on the end of her bathing cap. Date: 1934

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. The children from the nearby farms and neighborhoods go swimming, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, in the lake. Date 1940 June

Art deco sketch of a bathing beauty by Jean Gabriel Domargue, 1921 to accompany a feature about the pleasure of Deauville Date: 1922

Beach fashion, 1927
Two elaborate costumes for the beach. On the left is a jockey swimming suit of pik and black satin complete with matching cap

Sur La Plage de Deauville by Peter, 1927
A scene at Deauville, a French resort particularly popular with the well-heeled and fashionable during the 1920s. Image depicts various glamorous bathing belles with colourful parasols

Bystander masthead design, 1927 - Beach scene
Illustration for the Bystander masthead showing a 1920s woman reclining on a beach while her friends enjoy splashing about in the sea. Date: 1927

Winter Garden at St Pancras Schools, Leavesden, Hertfordshir
Young children with hoes and rakes tend the Winter Garden at the St Pancras Schools at Leavesden In Hertfordshire. The schools were used to house pauper children away from the workhouse

A Seaside Snap Shot by William Heath Robinson
Ingenious method of overcoming the difficulty of taking ones own photograph by bathing devised by the gadget king, and master of silly ideas, William Heath Robinson. Date: 1927

Sea Scouts swimming off the side of a dinghy
Sea Scouts swimming off the side of a sailing dinghy. circa 1920s

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