Swimming Collection (page 28)

Underwater Legs
A rather voyeuristic photograph of a womans legs, underwater. Date: 1930s

Boys Swimming
Boys enjoying themselves, swimming beside some steps, one of them wearing a snorkel and goggles. Date: 1950s

Feeding a Dolphin
Feeding a dolphin. Date: 1960s

Buccoo Reef Snorkellers
A group of snorkellers at Buccoo Reef, famous for its coral beauty, Tobago, West Indies. Date: 1960s

Couple on holiday in Scarborough, Yorkshire
A couple on holiday in Scarborough, Yorkshire, with an outdoor swimming pool in the background. Date: circa 1940s

Getting into the Swimming Pool

Swimming medal, Life Saving Championship
Medal of the Derby & District Swimming & Life Saving Association, awarded to JHW (J. H. Watson) for coming 3rd in the Individual Life Saving Championship. Date: 1912

Advert for Kestos brassiere 1934
Advert for Kestos lingerie, to be worn under swimwear. 1934

BACKSTROKE
A female swimmer wearing a bathing cap, doing the backstroke. Date: 1960s

Thames at Radcot
A glimpse of the River Thames at Radcot, where it flows through pleasant meadows and forms the boundary between Berkshire and Oxfordshire, England. Date: 1950s

Advert for Jantzen swimming suits 1934

Boys Brigade
A jolly group of boys on a rowing boat at the Boys Brigade summer camp, England. Date: mid 1930s

Man diving at a seaside resort
A man does an elegant dive from a diving board at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: circa 1930s

Hawaiian Cattle Farming
Cattle farming in Hawaii, U.S.A : The swimming cattle try to make a last escape bid, but the boat pulls towards the inter-island steamer. Date: 1930s

Girls Swimming
Young ladies of the R.C.C. club take a cold dip in a stream after a picnic lunch, watched by a group of local men across the riverbank! Date: 1930s

Man diving into an outdoor pool at a seaside resort
A man dives from a diving board into an outdoor pool at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: circa 1930s

Ragnhild Hveger
Danish swimmer RAGNHILD HVEGER (b. 1920), who was the holder, in 1941, of no less than 19 world records at one time. 400 metre Silver medal winner at 1936 Olympics. Date: 1930s

voltaire Swimming Pool
Passengers watching swimmers in the open air swimming pool of the Voltaire luxury liner on its cruise to Norway. Date: 1930s

Diving Girl
A young woman spring off the diving board into the swimming pool at the Hotel Miramar, Santa Monica, California, USA. Date: 1940s

Diving Dude & Dog
A man and his sheepdog dive into a river together! Date: 1930s

Swimming Swans
A study of two swans swimming together on lake. Date: 1950s

Swimwear 1910
Auntie Maudie and Auntie Dolly in their rather O.T.T. stripy bathing costumes at Bognor Regis, Sussex, England! Date: 1910

Happy Bathers
A jolly group of bathers in the sea. Date: 1923

Swimming Swan
Study of a swimming swan. Date: 1963

Lido Sunbathers

Swans on the River Nene
Swans swimming on the River Nene, near Cliffords Hill, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

Swimming medal, 100 Yards Breast Stroke
Medal of the Derby & District Swimming & Life Saving Association, awarded to K. W. Watson for coming 2nd in the 100 Yards Breast Stroke. Date: 1933

Swimming medal, Nottingham Evening News Big Swim
Swimming medal for the Nottingham Evening News Big Swim. The swim apparently took place in the River Trent -- an outdoor scene is featured

Bathers pose for photo at saltair, Utah, USA
Bathers prepare to take a jump into the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA Date: circa 1920s

Pin, Olympic Games Cross Channel swim
Pin for the Olympic Games Cross Channel swim. Date: 1928

Medal, Celanese Sports Club, Spondon, Derbyshire
Medal of the Celanese Sports Club, an occupational club run by the employees of the British Celanese chemical company at Spondon, Derbyshire. 20th century

The Bather - Domergue
" The Bather" Woman in swimwear holding a large parasol sitting on the pier, getting ready to go for a swim

Swimming medal, Derby Peace Celebrations
Swimming medal of the County Borough of Derby Peace Celebrations, Life Saving Competition, awarded to J. H. Watson. Showing the Derby emblem at the centre, the Deer in a Park. 1919

Swimming medal, Derby Water Polo League
Swimming medal of the Derby Water Polo League, awarded to one of the champions, J. H. Watson. Showing an outdoor scene with swimmers in the water and another swimmer diving in. 1907

Little boys first traumatic experience of the sea
A little boys first (rather traumatic) experience of taking a dip in the sea, despite soothing and encouraging words from Mama. Date: circa 1910s

Swimming medal, Water Polo Championship
Medal of the Midland Counties Amateur Swimming Association, awarded to the runners up in the Water Polo Championship. Featuring an outdoor swimming scene with a lifebelt design below. Date: 1909

Girl in studio pose in swimwear
Girl in a rather splendid swimming costume Date: circa 1910s

General Birdwood swimming
British General William Birdwood (1865 - 1951) swimming at Anzac Cove where he had led a landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops as part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli

The Olympic Swimming Pool, 1948 London Olympic Games
The Borough Swimming Pool at Aldershot viewed from the air, ready for the XIVth Olympiad in London, 1948. Date: 1948

Churchill on holiday at Dieppe, 1911
Winston Churchill(1874 -1965), then the Home Secretary, snapped on his holidays at Dieppe in France. Churchill emerges from the sea

Seychelles Scouts Bathing
The scouts have two sea baths a day. The Scoutmaster in the centre. August Camp, Seychelles. circa 1931

Seychelles Boy Scouts Bathing

Valparaiso, Chile - The Bathing Beach Date: circa 1930

Bathing Belle posing on rocks with a large fishing net. Date: circa 1920s

Granpop Tests the Swimming Pool Water by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his creation Granpop, an orang-utan, testing a teacup of water before his animal friends launch themselves from a makeshift springboard

Swimming lesson

Four Men Swimming
Four young men enjoy a swim in the sea. Date: 1950s

Eastbourne Lifeguards
A team of Lifeguards in action on the beach at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, showing the safety equipment used to reel in the guards themselves during a rescue. Date: 1960s

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