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Beaches

Area of sand or small stones near the sea or another area of water such as a lake

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Images referencing Beaches

32 images from works
  • A naked man lying submerged in sand on a beach; representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph, 199-, after Michael Rock, 1986.
  • The Baths, Gravesend, Kent: public beach. Line engraving by H. Adlard, 1828, after G. Shepherd.
  • A physically disabled boy sitting in a wheelchair on a beach. Photograph, ca. 1910/1925.
  • Two girls sitting in floral dresses on a beach, representing children with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Chris Taylor and HDM Eggert for Kinder-AIDS-Hilfe Deutschland e.V.
  • New Spa buildings, Scarborough, Yorkshire: panoramic bird's eye view. Photolithograph, 1880, after Verity & Hunt.
  • Crimean War, Ukraine: patients convalescing on the beach at Castle Hospital, Balaklava. Wood engraving.
  • A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • Notice to bathers : a penalty of forty shillings will be incurred: 1.-- By every person who shall bathe (otherwise than from a bathing machine or from a bathing hut), on any part of the Yarmouth sea beach ... / P. O'Connor, inspector.
  • Singapore: a view along the beach at Pasar Panjong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Singapore: St. John's Island and The Sisters from the beach at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

Works from the collections

34 works

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    A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.

    Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883. | Reference: 12151i
    Part of: Bird's-eye views of modern society
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    Singapore: view along the beach by Singlap. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.

    Taylor, J. E. (John Edmund), active 1860-1885. | Date: 1879 | Reference: 31779i
    Part of: Sketches in the Malay archipelago. Album of watercolours and photographs made and collected by J.E. Taylor.
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    Royal Baths, York Hotel, Stocker & Longmore's New Baths, York Terrace, Sidmouth, Devon. Tinted aquatint.

    | Date: 20 June 1820 | Reference: 22805i
    • Ephemera

    "Ma! Come and have your bumps felt!".

    | Date: [1950?]
    • Ephemera

    Caution : any person committing any annoyance or any nuisance whatever on any footway or foot-pavement, or on any road or way, within the District of the Hastings Local Board of Health.

    | Date: 1851

Related topics

Ocean
Singapore
Boats and boating
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Malays (Asian people)
Harbors
Seaside architecture
Health resorts
Safe Sex
Public baths

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