Swimming Collection (page 6)

Bathing At Southsea
1900: Holidaymakers enjoy mixed bathing at Southsea, in the sea with a line of bathing machines along the shore. (Photo by William Davis/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

British soldiers bathing in flooded shell hole by Matania
The only advantage of the wet weather on the Western Front - a novel swimming bath used by British soldiers to bathe in. A scene captured at the front by The Sphere special artist, Fortunino Matania

USA, Hawaii, Big Island, Underwater view of Spinner Dolphins (Stenella longirostris) in Pacific Ocean along Kona Coast

Picture No. 10898943
Amazon / Pink River Dolphin / Boto (Inia geoffrensis) Date:

Holidaymakers in the sea at Margate, Kent Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette swimwear advertisement, 1962
Jolly advertisement for Silhouette swimwear featuring a number of smiling (and, perhaps a little vacuous-looking) women on a beach wearing some brightly printed swimwear

Riding a killer whale
A man with a cowboy hat rides a killer whale. Date: 1960s

Tiger shark (Galeocardo cuvieri) artwork. The tiger shark is a voracious predator, attacking other sharks, marine mammals, birds and even crocodiles

Yellowfin tuna. School of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares). This fish is found in tropical and subtropical waters around the world

Cambrian animals, artwork
Cambrian animals. Artwork of an Opabinia regalis invertebrate (upper right) attempting to catch its prey, a primitive chordate called Pikaia (lower left)

Newport, Rhode Island, beach scene, 1870s
Summer residents enjoying the beach in Newport, Rhode Island, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Coot Fulica atra Titchwell RSPB Reserve Norfolk March

The Old Man and the Sea
Illustration by Raymond Sheppard to The Old Man and the Sea - a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951. The story focuses on Santiago

Queen Marys visit to Poplar Schools at Brentwood
In 1906, the Poplar Union (East London) established a Schools site located between Shenfield and Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex

Lessons by Post by William Heath Robinson
The new Heath Robinson Swimming Post, which is acquiring such popularity at our most fashionable resorts. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

One Mans Meat- by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, looks away in horror (or boredom) as his owner peers a little more closely with the help of a pair of binoculars at a bevy of bathing beauties at

Shoreditch Cottage Homes, Hornchurch, Essex
Boys in surplices leaving the chapel at the Shoreditch Union cottage homes, Hornchurch, Essex. Opened in 1889 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

A Dip into the Bath Club by H. M. Bateman
Humorous colour illustration by H.M. Bateman showing a group of men unashamedly standing around in their swimming trunks enjoying conversation at the Bath Club

Black Swan
A very stylised airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith depicting a mysterious-looking Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) serenly swimming across dark, still waters, dark

Geisha girls at the seaside, Japan
Two Geisha girls in elegant Western-style striped bathing costumes recline on a studio beach set

Endell Street Open Air Swimming Pool
A view of the open air swimming pool in Endell Street, Holborn, London, on the site of Holborn Borough Councils Public Swimming bath which was pulled down in 1938 in preparation for the building of a

Texas Diamondback Terrapin - Swimming underwater
PM-10472 Texas Diamondback Terrapin - Swimming underwater Malaclemys terrapin littoralis Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Dugong AU 1736 Dugong dugon © D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / ARDEA LONDON
AU-1736 Dugong - side on, underwater Dugong dugon Distribution: East Africa; West, South and South East Asia; Pacific Islands and Australia

Sea Otter - Using tool cracking clam on rock. California, USA Mo82
TOM-788 Sea Otter - Using tool to crack clam on rock California, USA Enhydra lutris Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Red-eared Terrapin
JD-4442 Red-eared Terrapin Pseudemys scripta elecans John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Whiskered / Atlantic Walrus
WAT-8589 Whiskered / Atlantic Walrus Prins Karls Forland, West of main Island of Spitzberg Odobenus rosmarus M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bufflehead duck - drake Oregon, Pacific Northwest. tpl575
TOM-930 Bufflehead duck - drake Oregon, USA Bucephala albeola Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Polar Bear - swimming
DOC-44 Polar Bear - swims underwater Ursus maritimus Doc White Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Loggerhead Turtle Front to side view North Atlantic Ocean
DSE-89 Loggerhead TURTLE - front to side view North Atlantic Ocean Caretta caretta Douglas David Seifert Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bottlenose Dolphin - playing / bow riding in front of cargo ship in the strait of Gibraltar. Spain
WAT-12944 Bottlenose Dolphin - playing / bow riding in front of cargo ship in the strait of Gibraltar Spain Tursiops truncatus M

Saunton Sands, Barnstaple, North Devon, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater
STA-94 Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubbles underwater Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Complex play / creative behaviour

Nautilus Swim Club 1
Fixture card of the Nautilus Swimming Club, a London club based at Camberwell Baths in south-east London. (see two subsequent items for their 1891 river picnic)

Large Swimming Bath, c1905
These baths were situated in the Medical Fund Society at Milton Road. The large coloured window at the end was made by Mr T Rice, an employee of Swindon Works

Europe, Italy, Sardinia. Cala Goloritze, the beach, the needle and the arch

Reefs from the Sun
Ken Kiefer

Swimmers laze in the sun by the outdoor pool at Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham, Friday 30th August 1963

Swimming Gala and races at the Derby Swimming Pool in Harrison Drive, Wallasey. Circa 1935

Aerial view showing the outdoor swimming pool at Gourock in Renfrewshire, Scotland on the sea front. Circa 1929

Diving Float and Bathers, Cornwall, 1931
A GWR Publicity view of a diving float and a group of bathers in Cornwall, 1931. A diver is about to dive into the sea from the platform while a group of people wait for their turn

San Sebastian, Spain - The Beach and the Casino - Beach Huts
San Sebastian - The Beach and the Casino - Spain - mobile beach huts. Note the striped swimming costumes hung out to dry on a rudimentary washing line. Date: 1906

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) diving near ice flow, Antarctica. Small reproduction only

Green Turtle, (Chelonia mydas), Swimming over volcanic sandy bottom, Armenime cove, South Tenerife coast, Canary Islands, Spain, Atlantic Ocean, May 2011

Marianao Bathing Beach, Havana, Cuba, c1910. [Edicion. Jordi]

Picture No. 11980652
Common Eider male in breeding plumage Iceland Date:

National Nautical School, Portishead
Boys holding oars in a boat - possibly in the Schools swimming pool - at the National Nautical School, Portishead, near Bristol. Date: circa 1945

Josiah Mason Orphanage, Birmingham - Swimming Bath
Josiah Mason Orphanage, Birmingham - girls in the homes swimming pool. Date: circa 1930s

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