Magnús Ólafsson, Women’s swimming lesson in Laugardalur in Reykjavík. Standing by are the teacher Ingibjörg Brandsdóttir and other women, Iceland, 1909.
Source: The Reykjavík Museum of Photography

Magnús Ólafsson, Women’s swimming lesson in Laugardalur in Reykjavík. Standing by are the teacher Ingibjörg Brandsdóttir and other women, Iceland, 1909.

Source: The Reykjavík Museum of Photography

77 year old Sadie North (foreground) teaching swimming and first aid. Photograph by Robert W. Kelley. USA, August 1952.

77 year old Sadie North (foreground) teaching swimming and first aid. Photograph by Robert W. Kelley. USA, August 1952.