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Bathing beaches

Images

  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: people bathing in the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • A young woman is walking along a plank near a beach hut as another reads a book and the children play in the sand. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.
  • A Peruvian woman wearing a blue bathing costume walking down steps into the sea. Coloured lithograph by J. Gaildrau, 1856, after A.A. Bonnaffé.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    "I wish I could see my little fanny !" / Easton Millar Ltd.

    | Date: [between1950 and 1959?]
    • Books

    Sewage contamination of bathing beaches in England and Wales / Committee of the Public Health Laboratory Service on the Sewage Contamination of Bathing Beaches in England and Wales.

    | Date: 1959
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Women swimming in the sea at Brighton. Coloured etching by W. Heath.

    Heath, William, 1795-1840. | Reference: 15654i
    • Books

    The lure of the sea : the discovery of the seaside in the Western world, 1750-1840 / Alain Corbin ; translated by Jocelyn Phelps.

    Corbin, Alain. | Date: [1994], ©1994
    • Student dissertations

    The interface between "The Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Disease of the Chest on the Separate or Cottage Principle" and the rise of Ventnor as a 19th century seaside resort / Hazel Strike.

    Strike, Hazel. | Date: 2006
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