The Blue Bath, Rotorua, circa 1898

gelatin silver print 146 x 198 mm - 3874 - THE BLUE BATH - ROTORUA Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 1999
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ

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The surviving entrance to the former Whiteinch Public Baths in the west of Glasgow. Designed by the Office of Public Works in an Edwardian Baroque style, it opened in 1926.

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The former Glasgow Corporation Public Baths and Wash House on Tollcross Road in the Parkhead area of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. MacDonald, it was built in 1904. Such public baths and steamies (as the wash houses were known) were once common in Glasgow, especially in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras when few tenements had their own bathrooms or washing facilities.

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1906 – Iveagh Trust Public Baths, Bride Road, Dublin
Architect: Joseph & Smithem

Part of the Iveagh Trust scheme which included housing, education, and social elements - the most significant urban renewal scheme undertaken in Dublin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Designed by
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The remaining facade of the former Whiteinch Public Baths in the west of Glasgow. Designed by the Office of Public Works in an Edwardian Baroque style, it opened in 1926. The Whiteinch Public Baths housed two swimming pools, separate men's and women's baths, and a Turkish bath. It closed in the 1990s, and much of it was demolished in 2008 to make way for flats. However, this central pavilion was retained.

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The Art Nouveau era was characterized by a vibrant art and cultural scene, where new ideas and progressive approaches in art, fashion, philosophy, and even the understanding of sexuality were being discussed. In particular, several notable cities fostered an atmosphere of openness and tolerance that allowed for the emergence of homoerotic encounters in public baths.

SD1.5, inpainting, composing

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The former Whiteinch Public Baths in the west of Glasgow. Designed by the Office of Public Works in an Edwardian Baroque style, it opened in 1926. It housed two swimming pools, separate men's and women's baths, and a Turkish bath. It closed in the 1990s, and much of it was demolished in 2008 to make way for flats. However, the central pavilion, which is shown in this photo, was retained

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Sculpted signs on the Maryhill public baths and wash house in Glasgow (now the Glasgow Club Maryhill). They were designed by A.B. MacDonald and were opened in 1898. They included thirty-six wash-stalls, two washing machines, a sevent-fice foot long swimming pool, twenty-five private baths for men, and only six private baths for women. They proved exceedingly popular and were visited over 400,000 times in the Summer of 1938 alone.

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1880 – Women’s Baths, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Architect: James H. Bridgford

Concrete sea baths for ladies only for the Bray Pavilion Company along Bray seafront later the Promenade. According to The Irish Times "The baths... will form a very pretty building...they will cover a space of one hundred and sixty-five fee
https://www.archiseek.com/2023/1880-womens-baths-bray-co-wicklow/
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