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  • A busy day at the beach. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • A man posing naked in a boxing stance with his fists raised, on a deserted beach.
  • The public baths and fishing boats, Brighton beach. Line engraving by S. Rawle after J. Nixon.
  • Birds typical of a beach in summer shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Birds typical of a beach in winter shown in their natural surroundings. Coloured lithograph by P. Trap.
  • Singapore: view towards Singapore from the beach at Tanjong Katong at sunset. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Salerno, Italy: panoramic view of the beach and harbour. Tinted lithograph after E.M.B.C., after 1847.
  • Singapore: St. John's Island and The Sisters from the beach at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • The Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC) Sanitarium, Taboga Island, Panama, with view of village and beach. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk: young men on the beach at Gorleston Swimming Club. Photographic postcard by Jackson's Faces, 193-.
  • Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk: young men on the beach at Gorleston Swimming Club. Photographic postcard by Jackson's Faces, 193-.
  • Crowds of people with donkeys are gathering cockles on the beach. Etching by John Le Conte after Edward Duncan.
  • A man playing with his sons in the sea; his wife and daughters watch from the beach. Wood engraving.
  • Women visiting a beach to enjoy geological collecting, study, sewing and other worthy activities. Chromolithograph after John Leech, 1865.
  • A group of men wait by the rocks on a beach with a small boat nearby. Lithograph by G. Engelmann.
  • Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales: members of Life Saving Clubs put on a display at a surf carnival. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • A beach in the Dardanelles with soldiers unloading medical supplies from a ship to Red Cross trucks. Colour halftone after N. Wilkinson, 1915.
  • Fishermen with a drag-net, burning kelp on the beach, and hooks and other equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Eight different species of fish, including cod, haddock, halibut and mackerel, are lying on a beach. Coloured etching by J. Miller after J. Stewart.
  • British prisoners of war posing in beach attire for a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Thiran, 191-.
  • British prisoners of war posing in beach attire for a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Thiran, 191-.
  • Vesuvius in eruption, with spectators on the beach at Naples and the Neapolitan skyline in the foreground. Colour process print after J.M.W. Turner.
  • Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • A man and a boy with bare torso in a rowing boat grounded on a beach: the man is demonstrating artificial resuscitation on the boy. Photograph.
  • Margate, Kent: a woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Two courting couples sitting having a barbecue on a beach in Antigua representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for condoms by the CFPA and AIDSTech. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • 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.