Racquets Collection

Making Tennis Racquets
Stringing new tennis racquets at a workshop in Wimbledon, London

Tatler cover - Gabrielle Chanel & Alain Gerbault
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a snapshot taken at Eaton Hall, Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, where Alain Gerbault, captain of the Firecrest and French lawn tennis star, was staying

Duchess of York and Helen Wills Moody at Wimbledon
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 1900-2002) and Helen Wills Moody (1905-1998) at the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon

Tennis Players (2nd state)
This lithograph portrays a pair of male and female tennis players, holding their racquets, whilst stood in an elegant position, on court, with some tall sunflowers between them. Date: 1918

Couple posing with tennis rackets, probably in Blanefield, Scotland. circa 1890s

Itinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5

Butterfly collectors tools from the 18th century: aerial net on a cane 1, scissors with racquets 2, small preservative brush 6, and soft brush to remove dust 9

King George in Wimbledon Whites holding tennis racquets Date: 1905

Love Game Date: 1920

RACQUETS AT BELVEDERE
A pairs match is watched by a high-brow crowd at Belvedere. Date: 1858

SPORT / RACQUETS
Princes Racquet Club Courts, Hans Place, Belgrave Square. Date: 1857

Futuristic aerial tennis
A futuristic game of aerial tennis, which requires the net to be set very high. Date: 1899

A Tennis Match! - four cartoon mice hit the court
A Tennis Match! - four French cartoon mice (seemingly related to a film and TV star from across the pond) hit the court for a few sets. Date: 1922

Lady Tennis Player having finished a game Date: circa 1935

Sport / Tennis
Three young women, two with tennis racquets pose for their photograph

Greetings card in the shape of a badminton racquet. Date: circa 1890s

Woman with a tennis racquet, c. 1885
A young woman holding a tennis racquet. Date: c. 1885

The Avenue tennis racket advertising showcard, 1890
An exquisite advertising show card from around 1890 for The Avenue tennis racquet manufactured by Clapshaw and Cleave of Birmingham, Bradford and Brighton

Picnic Cakes with sports decorations -- lawn tennis, coaching, cricket, boating, football, polo. circa 1890

New Year card in the shape of a badminton racquet with shuttlecock and butterfly. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a badminton racquet with shuttlecock and butterfly. Date: circa 1890s

Four police officers playing mixed doubles tennis
Four police officers (including WPC Alison Blair, right) playing a mixed doubles tennis match. Date: circa 1960s

Women police officers in tennis gear, Pembridge Hall
Women police officers in tennis gear, with racquets, on the steps of Pembridge Hall Section House for women police officers, at 17 Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2

Tennis Party India C1920
A jolly tennis party. Date: circa 1920

Edwardian woman playing tennis, watched by a smoking man. Date: early 1900s

Edwardian couple playing tennis -- the man runs to hit the ball. Date: early 1900s

Three children playing shuttlecock on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Five girls with tea tray in a garden
Five girls with a tea tray in a garden on a summers day. A badminton net is set up on the lawn in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Silhouette of contrasting transport, 1874 and 1924, by H.L. Oakley, in Tennis magazine, 24 July 1924. Above: a group of people arriving at a country house by horse-drawn carriage in 1874

Anthony Wilding and Arthur Balfour at Nice, 1914
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured in Nice in 1914 about to partner Mr Arthur Balfour, British conservative M.P

The Princes Club Racquet Courts, 1857
The Princes Club Racquet Courts at Hans Place, Belgrave Square, London. A private gentlemans club, designed by Mr. B. Burton, consisting of three courts, one of which is pictured here

Men and women taking tea in a garden
Three men and three women taking tea in a garden. A little dog looks up expectantly. The two younger women have tennis racquets. C.1900

Silhouette of a tennis player
Full-length silhouette of a tennis player with two tennis racquets tucked under his arm. 1926

Teddy Tinling tennis outfit, 1962
A tailored tennis suit in cotton pique with a drawstring waist and crossed racquets motif embroidered in blue on the shirt top designed by tennis fashion guru, Teddy Tinling. Date: 1962

Men playing tennis at Crosslands House
Two men taking part in a doubles tennis match at Crosslands House

Hampton Court Tennis
Lawn tennis in Hampton Court Tilt Yard: some are playing, some hold racquets and chat, others watch and walk by the courts

H K Foster - Cricketer
H K Foster - Worcestershire cricketer - who, like so many of his contemporaries also excelled at other sports, in Fosters case Racquets - as Champion Amateur 1894-1900

Children / Park C1908
Children in the park on a sunny day

Family in Garden
A family break off from their tennis game to be photographed informally in their garden, with their dog, probably in Sussex, England

STEAMSHIP FRANCONIA
Cunarder on the Atlantic run, described as a floating stadium because of her luxurious sports facilities - swimming pool, gymnasia and racquets court

Sport / Gryllo
A strange game, Gryllo, based on double-wicket cricket, but played with lawn tennis racquets instead of bats. A net at each end of the pitch takes the place of the stumps!

Fleet Prison Courtyard
Prisoners in the courtyard exercising and playing racquets

New Tennis Racquets
A female worker shows off several newly made tennis racquets, Wimbledon, London

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