Amateurs Collection

John De Forest with Golf Trophy
John De Forest (1907-1997), winner of the Open Amateur Golf Championship at Muirfield, with his trophy. Date: 1932

Cartoon, Another Juliet. Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre, for a matinee slot

Artists and Amateurs Society Conversazione, Walliss Rooms
Artists and Amateurs Society Conversazione at Walliss Rooms, London. 1860s

Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals
Contemporary society. Cartoon, Dilettanti Theatricals, or, a Peep at the Green Room, Vide Pic-Nic Orgies, by James Gillray

The Baptiste Bertrand Cup - ladies fencing, 1928
The Baptiste Bertrand Memorial Cup competition, competed for by lady amateurs of British nationality who had never fenced in a final pool of the Ladies Foil Championship

Gentlemen v Players, 200th Cricket Eleven
Photographs of the eleven Players in the 200th Gentlemen and Players cricket match. The match was played on an annual basis, the tradition having started in 1806

Central FC football team (probably a London-based amateur club). Date: 1903-1904

Crimean War, theatrical production before Sebastopol
Crimean War -- theatrical production by amateur performers of the Second Division of Zouaves (French North Africans) before Sebastopol. 1855

Caricature of Henry Irving sweeping amateurs away
Caricature of the actor-manager Henry Irving (1838-1905) sweeping the amateur rubbish away from the theatre. 1883

Cartoon, Matinees! Matinees!! Matinees!!! Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre

Cartoon, Still Life, WW1
Cartoon, Still Life, showing a foaming tankard of beer, with some saloon-bar strategists in the background. Date: 1916

VERNET, Carle (1758-1836). The Lovers of the
" VERNET, Carle (1758-1836). The Lovers of the Eclipse (7th September 1820). " Les amateurs d Eclipse" (September 7, 1820). Illustration by Carle Vernet. Litography. FRANCE. Paris

Spectators of balloon ascent, Paris
Aux Amateurs de Physique, Vue d Optique. An image of chaos as spectators try to get over the wall without a ticket, to watch the balloon ascent of Messrs Charles

Par autorisation de M. Le Maire de la ville de Rouen. Le Sieur Bolle, inventeur d un balloon representant un elephant... dont l inventeur se fera un plaisir de donner la description aux amateurs

Aux amateurs de physique. French cartoon shows people crowded outside the Tuileries Garden wall in Paris to view the first balloon ascension of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert in 1783

Lady in Photo Studio
Enthusiastic amateurs would set themselves up with well-equipped studios, with all the requisite equipment

Cricket / Team / Gentlemen
A team of Professionals: amateurs who played against professionals, in this case on the 9, 10 & 11 July

Cricket / Team / Players
A team of Players: professionals who played against amateurs, in this case on the 8, 9 & 10 July

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