Tanning Collection

Juan les Pins travel posters
Travel poster advertising the fashionable resort of Juan les Pins on the Cote d Azur in the Alpes Maritimes south east region of France

Pin-up calendar girl by David Wright, 1955
A blonde woman, who looks as if she is sunbathing topless, turns round to look seductively at the viewer, as she swings her sunglasses in one hand. Date: 1955

The Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven sun-tanning at Antibes. Prince George of Battenberg (1892-1938), 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven married Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby

A view of Eden Roc on the French Riviera
A view of the fashionable French Riviera destination, Eden Roc, where a bathing and sunbathing complex was fashioned out of the rocky coastal outcrop

Accessories for Sunshine, 1954
A woman sits enjoying the holiday sunshine surrounded by raffia accessories including a huge coolie hat, natural sandals, red sandals, a cone bag, an Ascher cotton square in diced blue and white

Advert for Beetham Larola suntan lotion 1940
Sun tan without sun burn. To suntan becomingly yet without painful sunburn, the skin should always be bathed with larola. Exposure to sun

Georgia - Tbilisi - A Tanner and Fur Hatter
Fur Hatter and tanner at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Stripping Oak Bark
Four working class men in flat caps work as a team, stripping bark off a huge oak tree, which has been felled for tanning

Wish You Were Here postcard
Seaside postcard featuring a woman in a yellow swimsuit sunbathing in a rather uncomfortable rocky spot on an unidentified beach

Advert for Perihel Mixry - Sunlamp 1940
The Perihel Mixry, artificial sunshine to bring you heath and vigour. Date: 1940

Trades in Regency England: charcoal burning, Jew selling pencils, and fishing. Worker at a charcoal pit in Furness 64, Jewish pedlar selling pencils door to door in Borrowdale 65

Cartoon, Sun bathing with rapid action globes. 1923

Advert for Elizabeth Arden sun cream 1934
Advertisement for sunbathing products by Elizabeth Arden including her Ardena Sunpruf Cream for protection and Velva Beauty Film to make you appear tanned and chic

Ponds Cold Cream as sun protection
Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream, suggesting that, if applied before exposure (to the sun), prevents the skin from becoming dry and burnt. I m not entirely convinced by this claim. Date: 1930

Advert, R Dobbie & Co, Leather Tanners, Ayr, Scotland
Advert for R Dobbie & Co, Leather Factors and Tanners, Mill Street Tan Works, Ayr, Scotland. 1905

Sunbathers at Eden Roc
Sunbathers at the famous Eden Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, an exclusive resort catering to sun worshippers who lay out on the famous orange mattresses. Date: 1930

Sun worshippers at Eden Roc at Cap D Antibes on the French Riviera. A favourite rendezvous of wealthy Brits during the inter-war years when tanning became ultra-fashionable. 1930

London health club 1926
A group of Hippodrome women from Mercenary Mary enjoying a sun bath, opened in Albemarle Street, London Date: 1926

The Lido-Laters by Howard K. Elcock
Fashionable society bathing and lying in the sun at the equally fashionable Venice Lido, under the familiar striped cabanna and parasols. Date: 1929

60S SUNBATHER
A blonde model, wearing a white bathing costume and sunglasses, reclines on a sun lounger on a balcony. Date: 1960s

The Cult of Nudity - sunbathing fashions, 1930s
Page from The Sphere reporting on the growing vogue for sunbathing fashions, particularly backless swimsuits - a style that began at the fashionable French resorts of the Riviera

On a Strip of Shore by Fougasse
A couple, wrapped in gowns and beach towels, look around them aghast at the beach at the (presumably) scantily clad people. Eventually they themselves strip down to the bare minimum. Date: 1931

Bi oro advertising poster
Poster advertising Bi-oro suntan oils and creams, showing a conker brown lady in a yellow swimsuit rubbing in more cream

John Smedley knitted swimsuits
Advertisement for John Smedley knitted swimwear. Good quality but no doubt rather itchy after a dip. 1938

Sunkist by Webster Murray
A fashionable 1920s woman in a bathing costume. Date: 1928

Ye Goddesses and Little Fishes by Jack Greenall
Wonderfully colourful and graphic depiction of typical modern girls of the 1920s sunbathing in technicolour swimsuits by a pool. Date: 1929

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

The bathing pool at Chambre d Amour, Biarritz
The bathing pool at the Chambre d Amour in fashionable French resort, Biarritz in 1934. Date: 1934

Society sun-basking at Juan-Les-Pins
Sunbathing on a Provencal beach from left to right is Mrs H. M. Martineau, Baron Pflugal, Major Mason, Baroness Pflugal and Mr H. M. Martineau at Juan-Les-Pins on the French Riviera. Date: 1934

Sun basking on board an ocean liner
The Art of Suffering Hot Weather Gladly - on a summer cruise. Passengers sunbathing in swimsuits on board an ocean liner, R. M. S. P. Atlantis. Date: 1931

The Tannery at Monte Carlo Beach
Artists impression of sun-worshippers soaking up rays at Monte Carlo beach, nicknamed the tannery by The Bystander, such was the cult of sunbathing during the 1930s

Society sunbathing at Eden Roc, French Riviera
Cartoon lampooning sunbathing society at the fashionable French Riviera destination of Eden Roc. Date: 1932

The Girl Who Really Went to Swim
A girl pauses on a diving board as she prepares to dive into a swimming pool. The title of the picture is a comment on the increasing craze for sunbathing during the late 1920s - somebody actually

Skol Sun Lotion advertisement, 1936
Skol sun lotion advertisement - non-oily, invisible, does not spoil clothes nor cake with sand. Gives complete protection against sunburn and windburn. Date: 1936

The Tannery at Beykoz, Istanbul, Turkey Date: circa 1935

Advert for Beetham Larola skin care protection 1931
For the sun bather Fashionable women use Larola because it is a sure protection against exposure to sun or wind. Larola enables you to tan without blistering and keep a lovely, healthy

Humorist front cover featuring Bonzo
Lovely front cover of the Humorist magazine, featuring Bonzo, the canine creation of artist George Studdy enjoying some tanning time of the beach. Date: 1934

Silhouette of a man sunbathing
Proceeds methodically to tan his face -- silhouette of a middle-aged man sunbathing, while a girl sits reading at his feet

1950s sunbathing
A woman stretches out luxuriantly in the sunshine wearing a swimsuit. Date: 1954

Santa Barbara Mission was founded in 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive water works survive today. Ruins of tanning vats and pottery kilns also survive

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