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Swimming and beaches

336 photos1874–1998

336 historic photos for Swimming and beaches, taken between 1874 and 1998, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 13 decades, with the most from the 1930s (143). They come from Wikimedia Commons; each photo’s page gives its credit, its licence and a link to its original record.

1870s 1 1880s 2 1890s 4 1900s 26 1910s 55 1920s 25 1930s 143 1940s 18 1950s 29 1960s 16 1970s 14 1980s 1 1990s 2

1930s60 photos

A large group of male swimmers Tramway swimming at Coogee Aquarium, 19351935An official hands a young woman swimmer a token Tramway swimming at Coogee Aquarium, 19351935Bondi Beach, 19351935Group of schoolboys cheering at swimming caarnival, 19351935Group of schoolboys cheering at swimming carnival, 19351935Japanese swimmers in action, 19351935Mens swimming at Domain Baths, 19351935Old style 9 feet long surf board riding at Bondi, 19351935Ronnie Anderson surfboard riding Bondi Beach, 19351935Start of a relay race showing five swimmers diving in Colleges swimming at Drummoyne, 19351935Surf carnival Cronulla, 19351935Swimmers, 19351935Swimmers, 19351935Swimming carnival with visiting Japanese swimmers at the Domain Baths, 19351935Three young men swimmers, 19351935Tramway swimming at Coogee Aquarium, 19351935Two children photographed with wrestler Lurich on the same day run up the sand Bondi Beach, 19351935Surfoplane riding at a Sydney beach, 193- - Sam Hood, 19351935Stewart House boys looking at comics from a Sunday paper, South Curl Curl Beach, by Sam Hood, 10 January 19351935Country children at Stewart House Preventorium learn to swim, South Curl Curl Beach, 10 Jan 1935, by Sam Hood1935A young diver in the air as he dives from the high-board, St Aloysius College swimming at Manly, 17 March, 1935, by Sam Hood1935Start of a race at a Belmore Central School's second swimming carnival, Enfield Pool, 27 March 1935, by Ted Hood1935Schoolboy cheer squad at Colleges swimming at Drummoyne, 1935- Sam Hood1935Mr J Prentice and Miss J Howat performing beach acrobatics at Bondi Beach, 2 Jan 1935 - by Ted Hood1935Mr J Prentice and Miss J Howat doing acrobatics, Bondi Beach, Jan 1935 - by Ted Hood1935Chorus girls in "Rhonrad" wheels roll across Bondi Beach, ca. 1935 - by Sam Hood, c. 1935c. 1935Inspectors of Schools and Swimming watch Stewart House swimming exercises on the beach, South Curl Curl, 10 Jan 1935, by Sam Hood1935Woman in sun-hat, Bondi Beach, 19351935Woman in sun-hat, Bondi Beach (cropped), 19351935View of the northern end of Bondi Beach, 1930–421930–42Bondi Beach, 1936–371936–37Bondi Beach, 1936–371936–37Bondi Beach, 1936–371936–37Coogee surf, 19361936Coogee surf, 19361936Coogee surf, 19361936Coogee surf, 19361936Narrabeen surf carnival, 19361936Narrabeen surf carnival, 19361936Narrabeen surf carnival, 19361936Plans for Manly Surf Pavilion taken for The Builder, 19361936Rockdale Baths - 12 December 19361936Coogee Beach looking South, 19361936Bondi Beach, 19371937Peggy Bacon in mid-air backflip, Bondi Beach, Sydney, 19371937Bondi Beach, 19371937Bondi Beach, 19371937Interstate swimming and diving championship, 19371937Russian Ballet at beaches taken for JC Williamson Ltd, 19371937Valerie Hay swimming taken for JC Williamson Ltd, 19371937Women in swimsuits dance at McRae Knitting Mills Ball at Wentworth Hotel, 19371937Valerie Hays from the cast of "Over she goes" being leapfrogged, 1937 - by Sam Hood1937Bondi Beach- 19371937Coogee Beach looking Southeast - c.1937, c. 1937c. 1937Bondi Surf Sheds and Beach - c.1937, c. 1937c. 1937Bondi Beach and Ben Buckler looking North - 19371937Bondi Beach looking South c.1937, c. 1937c. 1937Manly Ocean Beach - 19371937Wattamolla, Royal National Park, 19381938Photo of Damien Peter Parer, 19381938
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