Bath chair
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A bath chair—or Bath chair—was a rolling chaise or light carriage for one person with a folding hood, which could be open or closed. Used especially by disabled persons, it was mounted on three or fou
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Rolling chair parade in Atlantic City, about 1907
Bathing machine
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The bathing machine was a device, popular from the 18th century until the early 20th century, to allow people at beaches to change out of their usual clothes, change into swimwear, and wade in the oce
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…resorts such as Buxton, Harrogate, and Tunbridge Wells. Some versions incorporated a steering device that could be operated by the person in the chair. Bathing machine Cycle rickshaw…
Women posing near a bathing machine in 1902
Horse-drawn bathing machines in Wyk auf Föhr, Germany, 1895
Sea bathing in mid Wales c. 1800. Several bathing machines can be seen.
Mermaids at Brighton swim behind their bathing machines in this engraving by William Heath, c. 1829.