Acrobatic Collection (page 2)

Mushroom species
Mushroom and fungi species including stinkhorn, earthstar, puffball, rust, mold, etc. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart

Velocipede competition in Leipzig, Germany 1885
Scenes from a velocipede competition in Leipzig, Germany. Date: 1885

United States Air Force - Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
United States Air Force - Lockheed T-33A-1-LO Shooting Star 51-4076 (msn 580-5370) of the USAF Thunderbirds aerobatic team. 1952: USAF 3530th PTW. Support hack for the Thunderbirds acrobatic team

Japanese Acrobats. The Gentleman in the centre has turned away in disgust at himself as he managed to lose his fan that morning.... Date: 1904

Banking Expressions Illustrated - A Good Balance. The reverse message for this card rather wonderfully reads: " What Ho!" Date: 1904

The E Floretty Trio - German Entertainers
The E Floretty Trio - German Acrobatic Entertainers. A popular Trapeze Circus Act. Date: circa 1910s

Driving to the Races - Louis Wain postcard
Driving to the Races in a carriage pulled by a team of four dogs - distracted by acrobatic cats - Louis Wain postcard Date: 1911

Mado Minty 1913
Mado Minty, in theatrical spiders costume in Come Over Here, appearing in The London Opera House and also photographed in her private life. 1913

Physical education, gym
In the gymnasium a boy performs an acrobatic feat, watched by his fellow classmates. He leaps head first over four other boys who crouch on the floor

Schoolgirls practising gymnastics to music (provided by an upright piano). Date: circa 1920s

Gaston and Andree, London (1926)
The sensational adagio and acrobatic dancers Gaston and Andree, London (1926) Date: 1926

Alphabet with acrobatic jester
Jester doing acrobatic poses to spell out the alphabet. Date: 1881

Ice Skater Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie (19121969) - a Norwegian figure skater and film star. Three-times Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in Ladies Singles

Romania - The Calusari
The Calusari - members of a Romanian fraternal secret society who practiced a ritual acrobatic dance known as the calus. Date: circa 1906

Malaysia - Sandakan - Contortionist acrobat. Card sold in aid of the building fund for the Phillipino Association of Sandakan

Luise Blackbourne from C. B. Cochrans cabaret show
Luise Blackbourne in her Absinthe dance from C.B. Cochrans cabaret show And So We Go On at the Trocadero, London, 1928 Date: 1928

Front cover of London Life featuring an acrobatic dancing act, 1928 Date: 1928

Motorcycle display - Dispatch riders, Royal Corps of Signals
Motorcycle display (in training for a performance at the Royal Tournament) - Dispatch riders, Royal Corps of Signals. Date: 1930s

Young lady shortly fails to walk the tightrope
A young lady reads out a learned treatise upon tight-rope walking in a circus rather than actually performing on the high wire herself! Date: 1923

Portraits of various dancers: Lewisoff & Valmore (acrobatic dancers), Helen May, Mary Gayford, Wilma Deane and Bridgeman & Irvine, 1922 Date: 1922

Circus Acrobats - Edy Ruth and Francy
Edy Ruth and Francois (Francy) Edouard - Belgian aerial Circus Acrobats (Trapeze artists) - performing their sensational aerial act. Date: circa 1930s

Harry Mason and Lily Bart
Promotional postcard for Harry Mason and Lily Bart. These novelty comedy gymnasts were obscure performers. This postcard was commissioned it to advertise their act to music hall managers

Leaflet cover, Souvenir of The Cossacks -- acrobatics on horseback. Date: circa 1950s

Harry Mason and Lily Bart - Novelty Comedy Gymnasts of Brixton, London. " Ah! But What Gymnasts!" It looks conceivable as if Harry Mason is here taking on the persona of King George V

Get Away You Boys by Frank Rubens
Promotional postcard for Get Away You Boys, revue/farcical burlesque presented by Frank Rubens. First produced at the Grand Theatre, Clapham, 4th May 1914

Acrobatic clown on a Christmas card
Acrobatic clown in a colourful costume on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Baliol and Merton in the Piccadilly Revels, London (1928)
Baliol and Merton in the Piccadilly Revels (1928) - the cabaret show at the Piccadilly Hotel, London Date: 1928

Boys doing handstands on a Balham street, SW London
Two boys doing handstands against a brick wall on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy Scout activities in Afghanistan, in the scouting magazine Jamboree, April 1933. Date: circa 1930s

The Great Monohan - Record-breaking Roller Skater
G.S. Monohan ( The Great Monohan ) showing off his skills on his roller skates - here jumping cleanly over three chairs. Date: circa 1909

German female dance troupe striking a sculptural pose! Date: 1907

NFS (London Region) dispatch riders display team, WW2
NFS dispatch riders demonstrate their motorcycle riding skills with a acrobatic display at Regional headquarters, Lambeth SE1

Russian o shishi (acrobatic street dancer) master entertains the children of Japan. Print shows a red-faced Russian officer()

Nina Payne in costume, Paris 1925
Nina Payne (American acrobatic dancer) in costume, Paris 1925 Date: 1925

Bea Zoltana from the cabaret at the New Princes Restaurant
Bea Zoltana (Hungarian dancer) from the cabaret (6th edition of the New Princes Frivolities) at the New Princes Restaurant, London, 1925 Date: 1926

Easter and Hazelton, New York, 1925
American dancing team Easter and Hazelton, New York, 1925 showing the art of adagio dancing Date: 1925

The Dorians in Cabaret 1929 at the New Princes Restaurant, London, 1929 Date: 1929

The Tatler Christmas Number front cover, 1953
Front cover of The Tatler Christmas Number, 1953 featuring a scene inside a circus big top, with children being entertained by clowns and a girl acrobat on horseback. Date: 1953

Roserary and Capella, Paris
The celebrated French dancing act Roserary and Capella, Paris 1927 Date: 1924

Acrobat of Sangers Circus standing on a horse
Emmie Fossett, performer at Sangers Circus, showing off her acrobatic skills standing on the back of a singularly sturdy steed, with fine markings

Patriotic Black Sea Turkish Horse Display Team
The Black Sea Turkish Patriotic Horse Display Team in action

Turkish Wrestler (4 of 4)
A Turkish wrestler, Ryza Bey, watches his assistant practising an acrobatic trick handstand on a chair surrounded by dumbells

A boy balances on a Circus horse
A young boy acrobat stands on one leg on the back of a performing horse in a circus. Ink drawing with watercolour wash by Malcolm Greensmith

Acrobatic Ladies Footy
A woman in blue kicks the ball whilst opposing players tumble around her

Circus Act / Equestrian
An equestrian act at Bertram Mills circus. Dressed as cowboys, the riders performs various dressage steps and acrobatic feats

Pegoud / Bleriot Monoplane
Adolphe Pegoud, French aviator, noted for his acrobatic flying feats and looping the loop

Monkeys Agility
The monkeys acrobatic skills entertain the crowd

Tamarina & Fredoff 1928
Showgirl Tamarina, with dancing partner Fredoff in an acrobatic pose

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