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Swimming for children

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  • Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a swimming school. Lithograph by Tirpenne & Faivre after A. Thierry.
  • Children swimming in a river or lake. Colour process print, 1909.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Water babies : Igor Tjarkovsky and his methods of delivering and training children in water / Erik Sidenbladh ; [English translation by Wendy Croton].

    Sidenbladh, Erik, 1946- | Date: 1983, ©1982
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    Children swimming in a river or lake. Colour process print, 1909.

    | Date: [15 September 1909] | Reference: 730334i
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    Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a swimming school. Lithograph by Tirpenne & Faivre after A. Thierry.

    Thierry, Alexandre (Jean Alexandre), 1810–1866. | Date: 1844 | Reference: 29045i
    Part of: Colonie de Mettray
    • Books

    In the swim : the origins and systematic development of swimming in the county of Surrey's elementary schools 1905-1921 pioneered by Major Arthur Ormand Norman : a documentary history with various appendices including swimming and washing verminous children in the London School Board / by J Robert Pegg MA (Ed) History of Education (1870-1939), MA (Ed) Curriculum Studies, Chairman, Ealing Primary Schools' Football Association 1998-2003.

    Pegg, J. Robert | Date: [2017]
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