Excavation or containment structure filled with water and used for swimming

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Ten people at a swimming pool, one of whom will be infected with syphilis before the age of fifty. Lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.

Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.

No catch : you won't get AIDS from swimming pools. You can get AIDS from sexual intercourse. So the more partners, the greater the risk. Protect yourself. Use a condom / TVS, Health Education Council.

Kalk, Fett, Rost, Grünspan, Algen : Calmic cleaning compounds, wir helfen ihnen / Calmic GmbH.

A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942.

An outdoor swimming pool in Gstaad, Switzerland. Photographic postcard, ca. 1950.

Young men bathing and relaxing at a swimming school. Coloured aquatint, 1822.

Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a swimming school. Lithograph by Tirpenne & Faivre after A. Thierry.

A ball with a message indicating that AIDS is not transmitted in public swimming pools; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Colour lithograph.

A man and a woman lying in swimsuits within a condom packet within a swimming pool representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive. Colour lithograph.

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

Highbury pool price list : swimming ... patio ... gym/swim.

Take on a challenge : swim for Sport Relief 21-23 March 2014.

Small pool timetable : during school term / Highbury Pool.

Dive into the new year : 7.30pm Wednesday 15 and 29 January and 5 February.

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Swimming Pools

Images from the collections

Images referencing Swimming Pools

Works from the collections

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

Highbury pool price list : swimming ... patio ... gym/swim.

Take on a challenge : swim for Sport Relief 21-23 March 2014.

Small pool timetable : during school term / Highbury Pool.

Dive into the new year : 7.30pm Wednesday 15 and 29 January and 5 February.

Swimming Pools

Images from the collections

Images referencing Swimming Pools

Works from the collections

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

Highbury pool price list : swimming ... patio ... gym/swim.

Take on a challenge : swim for Sport Relief 21-23 March 2014.

Small pool timetable : during school term / Highbury Pool.

Dive into the new year : 7.30pm Wednesday 15 and 29 January and 5 February.

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