Puppet Collection (#3)

Father Christmas with children on a Victorian scrap
Father Christmas with presents and three children on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Mr Punch as jockey riding a cat on a Victorian scrap
Mr Punch dressed as a jockey, riding a cat on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Mr Punch, Judy and Toby on a Christmas card -- they raise a toast to the viewer. Date: circa 1890s

Mr Punch and Judy on a Christmas card -- he doesn t like the way his wife has cooked their goose. Date: circa 1890s

Clay puppet depicting a roman soldier. Olympia Archaeologica
Clay puppet depicting a Roman soldier used as a toy. Dated between I and III centuries a.C. Mirak Fragonisi Cemetery. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece

Myanmar - Burmese Puppet Show Date: circa 1910s

Cartoon, Disraeli and the Prince of Wales, with a puppet of Gladstone. This is how Beaky tried to amuse our future king at Hughenden. 1880

Punch and Judy by Arthur Boyd Houghton. circa 1860

Caricature of John Hollingshead, theatre manager
Caricature of John Hollingshead (1827-1904), at this time manager of the Gaiety Theatre, seen here reviving an actor (probably Edward Terry) and an actress (Sarah Bernhardt) in the form of puppets

Changchun, Jilin Province, China, Japanese Admin Building
Changchun, Jilin Province, China, Large Japanese Administrative Building - formerly the capital of the Japanese Manchukuo Puppet State in China (Manchuria) up to 1945. Date: circa 1920s

Puppet show seen from outside the box
Au Bon Marche - puppet show seen from outside the box, with an audience of children. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Shakes Versus Shav by George Bernard Shaw
Promotional postcard for Shakes v Shaw, a ten-minute puppet play by George Bernard Shaw. First produced at the Lyttleton Hall, Malvern, 9th August 1949 and Riverside Theatre, Festival Gardens

Northcotts Approved School, Walthamstow - Puppet theatre
Smartly dressed boys from Northcotts Approved School, Walthamstow, with the puppet theatre they have constructed. Date: circa 1937

Mother Christmas on a Christmas card -- With trumpets and with drums, Lo! Mother Christmas comes. Date: circa 1890s

Childrens entertainer at a party
" Uncle" Piet Tovenaar (born Frederick Bliss) in action with his ventriloquists dummy at a childrens party in London in 1965. Date: 1965

Cartoon, The Ultimate Precaution, WW1
Cartoon, The Ultimate Precaution, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria in front of a crowd of troops during the First World War

Wayang puppet theatre of Bali, Indonesia
Wayang puppet theatre and gamelan musicians of Bali, Indonesia. Date: circa 1920s

Page design, my teachers, School Silhouettes
Page design for my teachers in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Childs maid, Paris, early 19th century.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Louis-Marie Lante from Tradeswomen of Paris, Paris, 1823

Guy-ser Fawkes - the Kaiser caricatured, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II as a substitute for Guy Fawkes on the Fifth of November 1914. The Guy-sers were made by the toy department of the Womens Emergency Corps and were sold by a celebrated authoress

Crown prince puppet toy, WW1
A British girl pictured with a puppet which depicts Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of the Kaiser (known by the nickname of Little Willie in Britain) as a rather foolish clown. Date: 1915

Toy Theatre
Classic pantomime characters such as Clown, Pantaloon and Harlequin jostle with a dog musician, a dog cart, Mr & Mrs Dashaway and Mr Doublesight to form a production of Harlequin Jack Sheppard. c

Geppetto and Pinocchio
Geppetto finds that the wooden puppet, Pinocchio, is already displaying signs of bad behaviour despite not being finished. Date: 1936

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Pinocchio -- with the green fisherman
Pinocchio -- The green fisherman plunged him five or six times in the flour. Date: 1911

Pinocchio -- ill in bed
Pinocchio -- The doctors came immediately... a Crow, an Owl, and a Talking Cricket. Date: 1911

Pinocchio -- doused with water
Pinocchio -- Watering him from head to foot. Date: 1911

Pinocchio -- flying on the back of a pigeon
Pinocchio -- The pigeon soared so high that they almost touched the clouds. Date: 1911

Pinocchio -- gold coins and food
Pinocchio -- The poor boy had got in anticipation an indigestion of gold pieces. Date: 1911

Pinocchio -- with other puppets on stage
Pinocchio -- The demonstration of warm brotherly affection that Pinocchio received. Date: 1911

Pinocchio -- pursued by a sea monster
Quick, Pinocchio... but it was too late! The monster had overtaken him. Date: 1911

Japan - A Girls Festival Date: circa 1910s

An emancipated woman dreaming of the perfect husband
My Dream. An emancipated woman dreaming of a small, manageable, respectable husband! Date: circa 1920s

Emancipated woman shows off her strength
The strong emancipated woman shows off her strength; she balances on a barbell with two red Valentines Day hearts for weights while picking up a puppet-like little man by the scruff of the neck

Caricature of Charles Beresford, First Baron Beresford
Caricature of Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford (1846-1919) - an officer of the Royal Navy - by Phil May

Playing with a puppet. Print shows a woman, standing, holding a puppet of a woman above her head. Date 1742, printed later

Gala puppet circus Clowns, cowboys, acrobats, animals, and novelty acts. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of a puppet circus, showing head of a clown. Date between 1936 and 1941

Grotesque puppeteer
A rather grotesque and gigantic puppeteer performs a lewd puppet show for an equally lewd looking audience of considerably smaller people. Date: 1919

Garoet, Indonesia - Puppet Theatre and Gamelan
Garoet, Indonesia - Puppet Theatre and musicians forming a Gamelan orchestra Date: 1927

Three Boys playing with Soldier Marionnettes - World War Two era. Date: circa 1940

Watching a puppet show
Girls and boys gather round to watch a puppet show 1904

Javanese Puppet
A leather dancer puppet, traditionally used in shadow dances, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Pinocchio Nearly Eaten

Pinocchio Thrown

Pinocchio &other Puppets
Pinocchio with other puppets Date: First published: 1880

Pinocchios Nose Pecked
Pinocchios nose pecked down to normal size by the woodpeckers Date: First published: 1880

Pinocchio Watered
Pinocchio is drenched by water poured on him from above Date: First published: 1880

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