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Swimming

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  • Tuffati nel benessere : Yakult è prodotto ufficiale dei Campionati Mondiali di Nuoto FINA, Roma 09 / Yakult Italia.
  • A white telephone on a pale blue background advertising AIDS counselling services offered by health authorities and voluntary organizations; with the message ''You do not get AIDS from swimming". Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen, ca. 1995.
  • Tuffati nel benessere : Yakult è prodotto ufficiale dei Campionati Mondiali di Nuoto FINA, Roma 09 / Yakult Italia.
  • Stories of the Royal Humane Society / by Frank Mundell.
  • Moscow: people swimming and sunbathing at Cerebrensky public baths. Etching by M.G. Eichler, 1799, after G. de la Barthe, 1796.
  • Men in swimming costumes. Colour process print after A. Massonet, 192-.
  • Venus and a maid teaching Cupids to swim. Engraving by A. Campanella after A. R. Mengs, 1778.
  • General Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate, Kent. Line engraving by R. Ashby after W. Pickett.
  • The victorious English 400 m. women's relay swimming team at the Stockholm Olympic Games.
  • Important recommendations to rescuers / Royal Life Saving Society.
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Catalogue

  • view A few words on swimming : with practical hints to beginners / by Ralph Harrington.
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    A few words on swimming : with practical hints to beginners / by Ralph Harrington.

    Harrington, Ralph. | Date: 1861
    • Ephemera

    London 2012 Paralympic Games : Ellie Simmonds : Monday 3 September 2012, Aquatics Centre : gold medal winner / [Royal Mail].

    | Date: 2012
    • Ephemera

    London 2012 Paralympic Games : Josef Craig : Thursday 6 September 2012, Aquatics Centre : gold medal winner / [Royal Mail].

    | Date: 2012
    • Ephemera

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

    | Date: [between1950 and 1959?]
  • view Boys bathing in the river by the playing fields, Eton College, Berkshire. Line engraving by J.T. Willmore after J.D. Harding.
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    Boys bathing in the river by the playing fields, Eton College, Berkshire. Line engraving by J.T. Willmore after J.D. Harding.

    Harding, James Duffield, 1798-1863. | Reference: 17521i
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