Swimming Collection (page 8)

Advanced Swimming Certificate, Reading Schools
Advanced Swimming Certificate, Reading and District Elementary Schools Swimming Association, for swimming 40 yards in 50 seconds. 1924

Annette Kellerman
Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman (1886 - 1975), Australian swimmer, film star, and writer. One of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, causing a minor scandal at the time

Maud, Ethel and Gladys Finney, exhibition swimmers
The Misses Maud, Ethel and Gladys Finney, part of the Finney family, swimming champions, and appearing with their father James, and aunt Marie, at the newly-opened London Hippodrome in 1900

Polars bears at the London Hippodrome, January 1910
Seventy polar bears, transported there to take part in the theatres Christmas water spectacular, The Arctic. Fifty of them plunged from icebergs into the water while the remaining bears roamed about

Scene from the film Roadhouse
Swimming pool scene from the film Roadhouse based on the play by Walter Hackett and directed by Maurice Elvey. The play and the film, starring Gordon Harker and Violet Loraine

Wish You Were Here, musical comedy, London Casino
Jack Hylton presents Wish You Were Here, a new musical comedy at the London Casino. 1954

Portable bathing tent for changing at the beach
Portable changing tent for the beach. Held up by the head (with viewing opening!) there were pockets inside for clothes to helped. Available from Marshall and Snelgrove. Date: 1925

Mullers Orphan Houses - Swimming Bath
Interior of the swimming bath opened in 1910 at Mullers New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol. Date: circa 1910

Bathers at the rooftop pool of the Piccadilly Hotel
A group of bathers, having taken advantage of the bathing-pool at the Piccadilly Hotel, taking a cooling drink during the heat wave in London in August 1932. Date: 1932

Hot Weather Habits At Major J. B. Paget s
Page from The Tatler with photographs recording a bathing party held at Ibstock Place, Roehampton, home of Major and Mrs J. B. Paget

Prince Andrew of Greece at Monte Carlo
Prince Andrew of Greece, father of the Duke of Edinburgh pictured with Grand Duke Dmitri, pictured poolside at Monte Carlo Beach on the French Riviera

Patricia Ellis, American actress
Patricia Ellis (1918-1970), American actress. 1938

Mildred Barth, actress. 1939

Martha Raye, American actress and singer
Martha Raye (1916-1994), American actress and singer. 1938

Joy Hodges, American singer and actress
Joy Hodges (1915-2003), American singer and actress. 1938

Irene Hervey, American actress
Irene Hervey (1909-1998), American actress. 1938

Ilona Massey, Hungarian actress
Ilona Massey (1910-1974), Hungarian actress. 1939

Grace Ford, American actress
Grace Ford (1913-1990), American actress. 1938

Gloria Dickson, American actress
Gloria Dickson (1917-1945), American actress. 1938

Georgie Butler, actress. 1939

Betty Furness, American actress
Betty Furness (1916-1994), American actress. 1938

Blue swimming crab, Portunus (Portunus) pelagicus. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Blanchard from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Siphonophora jellyfish colony. Physophora hydrostatica (Discolabe quadrigata), colony, gas bladder, swimming bell, polyp, etc

Velvet crab, marbled swimming crab and Pennant s
Velvet crab, Necora puber 1, marbled swimming crab, Liocarcinus marmoreus 2, and Pennants swimming crab, Portumnus latipes 3. Portunes: etrille, marbre, varie

The Whale at the Westminster Aquarium - capture, transportation to London, attention en route, arrival and finally swimming in the Aquarium pond. Date: 1877

Family group at seaside, 1920s
Family group photograph at the seaside. An older couple sit on deckchairs with two girls in matching hats and swim suits, the adults smiling whilst the children look less sure theyre enjoying

One, Two, Three, Four, Five, I Caught a Fish Alive by Agnes Richardson

I Saw a Ship by Muriel Dawson. 1944

Jolly crowd in the sea
A jolly crowd of bathers wave at the camera as they stand in the sea at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: 1920s

Impromptu dance to gramophone at river resort
Impromptu dance to the gramophone at a river resort. Date: 1933

Battersea new Ladies Swimming Bath
The new Ladies Swimming Bath opened in 1904 by Battersea Council on Burns Road. Date: 1904

Carlton Reformatory School Swimming Bath
The swimming bath at the Reformatory for Boys, Carlton, near Bedford. The establishment later became Carlton Approved School. Date: circa 1926

Miss S. T. Phillips playing tennis at the Venice Lido
Keeping cool in the lawn tennis court: Miss S. T. Phillips has a game in her bathing suit. Those staying at the Venice Lido regularly went from beach to tennis court in their bathing suit. Date: 1927

Personalities on the beach -- Hon Mrs Richard Norton, the wife of Lord Grantleys heir. Date: 1930

Personalities beside the pool and on the beach -- Lady Cynthia Mosley by the bathing pool, Cap d Antibes (top) and Cocktail Time

Bathing at the Lido, near Venice
Bathers enjoying the warm waters of the Adriatic Sea at the Venice Lido in 1901. The building of the bathing establishment ( stabilimenti ), seen here on the left

The morning lounge at Biarritz
Scene on the beach at Biarritz in 1866, about a decade after the resort on the SW French coast was made fashionable by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie

Knitted swim wear 1940
Page from a magazine showing a model wearing a knitted bikini. Date: 1940

Coogee Bay Beach, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Coogee Bay Beach with Shark Tower (for observation), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with hot sea bathing and massage rooms. Date: circa 1930s

Clifton Gardens, Sydney Harbour, NSW, Australia
Clifton Gardens, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, showing the pavilion, a swimming pool and a diving tower. Date: circa 1908

Hotel Showboat, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Hotel Showboat, Boulder Highway, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: late 1950s

Hotel Thunderbird, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - view of the swimming pool and patio. Date: 1950

Hotel Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. circa 1948

Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow at Monte Carlo Beach pool
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, formerly Miss Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress pictured by the Monte Carlo Beach Hotel swimming pool on the French Riviera. 1936

Barbara Hutton swimming at Monte Carlo beach
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, aka the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, having a swimming lesson in the Monte Carlo Beach swimming pool on the French Riviera. Date: 1936

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

The Showboat, Maidenhead
Artists impression of The Showboat at Maidenhead, a club offering a swimming pool, sunbathing, cocktails, dinner, dancing, cabaret and sports

Woman in a swimming costume on the beach at the seaside. Date: circa early 1920s

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