A young boy sitting at a wooden table in a kitchen, attentively reading an open mid-century swimming instruction book, with an illustrated aquatic guide standing nearby and a pool visible through the window.

Learning to Swim on Paper: The Picture-Lessons of the Mid-Century Aquatic Education

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In the 1940s and 1950s, the Book of Knowledge published Four Picture-Lessons in Swimming and Diving — compact, elegant illustrated guides that taught a generation to move through water. A look at the history, the strokes, and the art of mid-century aquatic education.

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