swimming

[Alexander Graham Bell swimming, his head above water, with cigar in h...

Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).

Two men swimming behind the Chicago water tower and pumping station

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A timely warning / J.S. Pughe. - Public domain dedication image

Illustration shows the Republican elephant wearing a hat labeled "G.O.P." and "High Protective Tariff" and a swimsuit labeled "Tariff-Protected Trusts", wading offshore toward huge waves labeled "Public Patienc... More

[City children - bathing for free at the Battery, New York City]

Children swimming (most without suits) in public pool, some adults watching at left. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Eva Morrison - Public domain portrait photograph

A woman in a bathing suit standing next to a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

It is nice in the surf but what about the men in the trenches. Go and ...

Poster shows a man swimming in the surf. On right side is emblem of Win the War League, I serve.

Bettie Taylor - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Five women in swimsuits on icy beach], 2/23/24

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mah-Jong at bathing beach, 62024

Caption for this image in an NPC album: Warm weather Mah-Jong, photo snaped (sic) at Wordman Park Pool. Left to right: Jane Eynon, Betty Carey, Helen Plummer, Ruth Nebecker." Title from unverified data provided... More

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. ...

Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. ...

11671-7. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Addi... More

A large group of people swimming in a pool, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Salmon coming up Mill Creek. Tehama County, California

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Swimming Pool, Southeast corner of East N...

Significance: It was constructed in 1945 as part of a massive building campaign at the Fitzsimons General Hospital during WWII. The building originally provided aquatic therapy for disabled or paralyzed hospita... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Holding down his life preserver, Atlantic City

No. 11418. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prince Chichiba swimming - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brown of Princeton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

The lone bather, Atlantic City, N.J

No. 15877. Public domain photograph of New Jersey, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burgess - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows William T. Burgess (1872-1957), who swam the English channel on Sept. 6, 1911. He was also known as Thomas William Burgess. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and 2009)

100 Meter Swim--Olympic games - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photo related to the 5th Olympic Games, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

May E. Miller - Claw stroke - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows Mary Elizabeth Miller, a fourteen year old girl who swam across the Hudson River in 1915. She is probably doing the crawl stroke. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, Sept. 2, 1... More

Jerusalem Y.M.C.A. activities. Swimming pool, boys' day

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

A black and white photo of a group of people in a swimming pool, Great...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A black and white photo of a crowd of people in the water, Great Depre...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Weeki Wachee spring, Florida

Photograph shows underwater view of a woman, wearing a long gown, floating in water. Published in: Harper's Bazaar, Dec. 1947; Sport's Illustrated, 1955. Also published as a frontispiece in Photographs, 1933-1... More

Bathers in the breaking waves of the Atlantic, Coney Island

H81136 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C.

Faraway Ranch, Swimming Pool, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-139-M Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Panorama of Crystal Beach], Panoramic Photograph

J197597 U.S. Copyright Office Title derived from copyright deposit records. Copyright deposit; Lake Erie Excursion Co.; November 16, 1914.

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Swimming Pool, Southeast corner of East N...

Significance: It was constructed in 1945 as part of a massive building campaign at the Fitzsimons General Hospital during WWII. The building originally provided aquatic therapy for disabled or paralyzed hospita... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Puck magazine cover - Democracy's opportunity / J. Keppler.

Print shows a man labeled "Republican War Record" standing in a pond labeled "Republican Corruption Water", yelling to an Irishman wearing a hat labeled "Democracy", gathering up the Republican's clothing label... More

A sad predicament, Keystone View Co stereoscopic card

Nude man in waist deep water peers through rushes at group of people on land. D19079 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 689. Title translations in various languages on verso.

[Gordon Park, bathing scene, Cleveland, Ohio]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Helen Foulds ready to dive into water

A black and white photo of a woman throwing a frisbee. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Twenty years after / J.S. Pughe., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a man labeled "Republican Party" picking up the clothing of a man labeled "Democratic Party" swimming in the "Democratic Issue Pond" which is labeled "Socialism, Bryanism, Populism, Free Silv... More

Helen Saunders - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a bathing suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Red Cross Recommends. This stroke to enable swimmers to carry drowning...

Caption from negative sleeve: Comdr. Longfellow. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. Mr. Longfellow. Group tit... More

Cairo and district, Egypt. Swimming pool at Heliopolis well attended d...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

A black and white photo of people in a swimming pool, Great Depression...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Learn to swim campaign Classes for all ages forming in all pools / / W...

Poster for New York Department of Parks announcing classes forming for swimming lessons, showing African Americans on one side and white children on the other. Date stamped on verso: Jul 22 1940. Poster design... More

Seals in the Arctic region starting on their long swim to southern sea...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

He felt how comfortable it was to have nothing on him but himself

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916, p. 86. Exhibit l... More

Fitzsimons General Hospital, Swimming Pool, Southeast corner of East N...

Significance: It was constructed in 1945 as part of a massive building campaign at the Fitzsimons General Hospital during WWII. The building originally provided aquatic therapy for disabled or paralyzed hospita... More

[Atlantic City; panorama of beach and boardwalk from pier]

50273C2 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; William Herman Rau; September 8, 1897. Copyright claimant's address: Phila., Pa. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Loleta Recreation Area, Lower Dam, 6 miles Southeast of interesection ...

See also HABS PA-5963 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps between the years of 1933 and 1936. The CCC work project was i... More

Bathing at Atlantic City / - movie film screenshot

"A panoramic view taken from Young's Pier, showing the boardwalk, the auditorium pier, new steel pier, beach and bathing. Without an exception the only film on the market showing at least 50,000 people. This gr... More

Swimming. Aeroplane swimming, Pittsburgh, Feb. 16, 1910

Photograph shows a woman standing on a railing, holding a bi-plane wing structure on her shoulders, possibly above a swimming pool; a man wearing shirt labeled "Sixth Wa[...]" is standing behind her, providing ... More

Wardman Park swimming pool - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A man and a little girl swimming in a pool, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gif... More

Salmon coming up Mill Creek. Tehama County, California

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information archive

To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More

Florence, Alabama (vicinity). Boy Scout camp. At a swimming class

Public domain photograph of boy scouts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madigan Hospital, Gymnasium & Swimming Pool, DuPont, Pierce County, WA

Survey number: HABS WA-202-27 Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bathers at Crystal Beach], Panoramic Photograph

Small photo studio on beach. J162238 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Buffalo, N. Y. Title derived from copyright deposit records. Copyright deposit; W. H. Brandel; October 28, 1911.

Faraway Ranch, Swimming Pool, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-139-M Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seals in the Arctic region starting on their long swim to southern sea...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Moody Bridge, Spanning South Fork Eel River, Garberville, Humboldt Cou...

Significance: Moody Bridge is one of four remaining Parker, pin-connected through truss steel bridges in California. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. ... More

Moody Bridge, Spanning South Fork Eel River, Garberville, Humboldt Cou...

Significance: Moody Bridge is one of four remaining Parker, pin-connected through truss steel bridges in California. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. ... More

Moody Bridge, Spanning South Fork Eel River, Garberville, Humboldt Cou...

Significance: Moody Bridge is one of four remaining Parker, pin-connected through truss steel bridges in California. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, and method of construction. ... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More

Bronx River Parkway Reservation, The Bronx to Kensico Dam, White Plain...

Significance: The Bronx River Parkway Reservation was the first public parkway designed explicitly for automobile use. The project began as an environmental restoration and park development initiative that aim... More