Listen Collection (#3)

Regional African music: Zambesi
Musicians perfoming together next to the Zambesi river, Africa. Women with water pots listen to the music of the marimba, sansa and pan pipes

Children at Aldeburgh Festival Rehearsal 1962
Unidentified children listening to the rehearsal for the Choral and Orchestral Concert held at the Aldeburgh Parish Church (24 June), Aldeburgh Festival 1962. Date: 1962

Wireless enthusiasts who got engaged to be married
Couple sitting back to back sharing a pair of headphones while listening to the wireless. 1926

Bonzo finds the bedtime story too much for him
Bonzo finds the bedtime story on the radio too much for him, and he bursts out crying. Date: 1923

Lifeboatmen, c1870
Three lifeboatmen scan the horizon for seafarers in peril. Date: c.1870

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1946
Listen to your wiser self ! Shoppings done and you ve a few shillings to spare. Going to let them burn a hole in your purse

Listening In by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy sits on a chair, listening to the ticking of a pocket watch. Date: 1930

A food hygiene course
Two chefs prepare food infront of a predominantly female audience who take notes and listen keenly to the two experts. The blackboard behind the cooks has details of todays dishes which include beef

Christmas Carol O Listen to our Simple Song
Christmas Carol - O Listen to our Simple Song. McCloy, Samuel 1831 - 1904

Mariner, Wedding Guest
The Mariner compels the Wedding Guest to listen to his tale: The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear Date: First published: 1798

Stop! Look!! Listen!!!. Ilustration shows Theodore Roosevelt charging through air at a high rate of speed at an extremely large President Taft who is seated on top of the White House

Mrs. Caudill and her daughter in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico. The Caudills have one of the few radios in their neighborhood

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Tower of London Tourists
A woman cocks her ear to listen to a Beefeater giving directions to her and her family during a visit to the Tower of London, England. Date: 1950s

And all the little singing birds listen to the tune (The Fairy Flute). 1922

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Jazz music while you dine, 1929
A couple listen to jazz over a rather fraught dinner. The dog, cat and pet bird screech while the music blares out of the gramophone. Date: 1929

American Scouts listening to the radio
Five American Boy Scouts sit together listening to the radio, while one reads a magazine. An elderly lady sits in the corner of the room. 1942

Music at home - children at the piano
A girl plays the piano, while a boy and a girl listen. Date: 1889

Italian Pifferari, 1850
Roman piffarari perform by a wayside shine, 1850. Date: 1850

Music at home - young violinist
A young violinst performs for his family at home

At the piano by G. Kilburne
A girl listens to a woman playing the piano. Date: 1875

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Sunday afternoon, Victoria Park
A Sunday afternoon lecture in Victoria Park, London. A well-dressed crowd listen to a speaker from the nearby Oxford House

Met Police officer on his car radio
A Metropolitan Police officer stands by his car with the door open, about to speak on his car radio

Large crowd listens to Mussolini
A wonderful shot of a large crowd in Rome, Italy listening to a speech by Benito Mussolini. Date: December, 1927

Universal Exhibition, Paris
Members of the public testing out telephones and phonographs at the L Exposition Universelle in Paris

The Tsars Ukase
Polish villagers listen to the tsars ukase, read to them by their priest. He offers an amnesty to all who lay down their arms, but the rebels reject his kind offer

Listening for sounds of counter-mining
British soldier using a microphone to listen for evidence of enemy counter-mining underground. Underground mines became a major feature of warfare on the Western Front during World War I with miners

Children Talking C1880
A group of boys and girls listen to a little girl telling a story

PHILCOs PEOPLEs SET
A Philco Peoples Set radio from the 1930s, as used in Queens Radio Ga-ga video!

Soldiers Hear Speaker
Soldiers at Petrograd listen as a speaker tells them what a splendid thing the revolution is

Listening to Radio
Three women and a boy listen to the radio in 1923 - its such a novelty, they all sit gazing at the source of the sound

Peasants Grievances
Russian socialist deputies listen to a peasant who has walked from his village to recount his grievances

Mercadiers Multiphone
Mercadiers multiple receiver, enabling the whole family or office to listen to an incoming message

Theatrephone
Thanks to the theatrephone, a Parisienne could listen to Verdis Falstaff or the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles, live from the theatres

London / Regents Park / 1890
A couple relax in the park. Behind them a group of people listen to music from the bandstand

Mariner Stops One Guest
The Ancient Mariner stops one of three young men on their way to a wedding to compel him to listen to his story

Frankish Women, Priest
Four Frankish ladies of what are today France and Germany, listen to a priest as he expounds the scriptures

Girl Prays / Angels Listen
Two angels listen while a child kneels on her bed and says her evening prayers

Children Reading, 1867
A group of Victorian children listen to older girls reading a story

Nurse, Girl, Cats
A child with a cat in her arms has laid aside her doll to listen to her nurse who sits sewing by the fire, watched by another cat, as she recalls past days now long gone by

Nuremberg Defendents
The defendants at the Nuremberg Trial listen to the proceedings as they are tried for crimes against peace, humanity and defenceless minorities

Family at Evening Prayer
The servants join the family for evening prayer : Papa reads from the Bible, while all listen attentively : the picture on the wall shows the Good Samaritan

Trench Listening Post
A French " listening post" in " No Mans Land" where soldiers took turns to listen out for surprise enemy attacks

Dogs Listen to Radio
Three dogs enjoy a radio broadcast

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