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• beach
• swimmers
• bathing
• queensland
• swimming
• sand
• beaches
• statelibraryofqueensland
• sea
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• slq
• men
• women
• 1920s
• surf
• seaside
• florida
• goldcoast
• sydney
• postcards
• ocean
• stripes
• children
• sydneybeaches

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• State Library of Queensland 9 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 6 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 4 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• Royal Australian Historical Society 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 2 photos & illustrations
• Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavíkur / The Reykjavík Museum of Photography 1 photo / illustration
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1 photo / illustration

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Spring Hill Baths, ca. 1910

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Nestled away in a leafy, cottage-lined street of Spring Hill, sits the oldest surviving swimming bath in the southern hemisphere. Designed by Thomas Kirk and built between 1886 and 1913, the cosy and convivial appeal of the baths is enhanced by the brightly coloured Victorian dressing booths that circle the 23.43 metre pool. Adding to its historical appeal, the heritage listed baths feature stepped wooden bleachers, an upper gallery and a two-storey caretaker’s residence which sits at the eastern end of the building. The open roof is designed so that spectators can keep dry and shaded, but also allows sunlight to spill in, illuminating the swimming pool on sunny days entire project cost £2,526, approximately $330,483.07 in today’s currency. The Spring Hill Municipal baths were commissioned to replace the city’s increasingly polluted floating river baths that lined the Brisbane River from the mid 19th century. With a key focus on sanitation, the new Spring Hill baths were emptied nightly and fresh water was piped in from large holding tanks that sat at the end of the baths. This outdated practice was finally replaced by a modern, and less wasteful filtration system in 1961. Originally only accessible to men, the baths began admitting women 12 months after opening – but with strict swimming times enforced. It was not until 1928 that ‘mixed’ swimming was introduced. Modern day swimmers can still admire the vintage signage dotted around the pool’s edge with amusing directives like “Men must not loiter on this end of the pool”. Source: www.museumofbrisbane.com.au/mob-sunday-stories-spring-hil...

Cronulla Beach, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• excellentzebu1050 said:

  wonderful

Spot the Loyal Guard Dog

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 21 older comments, and then…
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Is that some early photoshopping? See the lady on the right.

• Niall McAuley said:

  I think it is motion blur

• Niall McAuley said:

  We met the dog before:
  
  

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Could this be the same Dog?
  

• DannyM8 said:

  Nice Dog.