Audience Collection (page 12)

Hagenbeck Circus and Zoo in London
The sights and sounds of the Christmas season at Olympia, London: Carl Hagenbecks Circus and Zoo from Hamburg. Showing the annexe with sea elephants (sea lions), penguins, polar bears

Street Music: a gutter-ball 1896
An organ grinder finds an appreciative audience of dancing street children. Date: 1896

Entertainment for troops during World War I
Troops of British soldiers being entertained in a recreation hut at the Front during World War I. Date: 1916

Symphony under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 1947

Opening of International Horse Show, Olympia, London
The opening of the International Horse Show at Olympia, London, showing an event in the arena with a large audience watching. In the foreground horses can be seen in their stalls. Date: 1913

Earlswood Asylum summer festival, 1867
Summer festival at the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, Redhill. Date: 1867

The Royal visit to Astleys, 1846
Queen Victoria(1819-1901), Prince Albert (1819-1861)and their two children Vicky Princess Royal(1840-1901), later German Empress

The Royal Variety Show, 1938
The 1938 Royal Command Variety performance at the London Coliseum: the Grand Finale. The entire company, lead by Lupino Lane, doing the Lambeth Walk, a popular musical number. Date: November 1938

Testing a petrol-driven car, Russia
Two men captivate a Russian audience as they test a petrol driven car in 1901. Date: 1901

A Gynaecological Operation in St Petersburg
Early 20th century Gynaecological surgery taking place in front of a vast audience of Surgeons, would-be surgeons and nurses in the Obstetric Institute in St Petersburg, Russia. Date: 1905

Houdini Preparing for Bridge Jump
The prolific Austrian-Hungarian escape artist Harry Houdini preparing for one of his many daring feats of escapology, this time a highly publicised Bridge Jump whilst in metal chains. Date: circa 1910

French Magician / Robert Houdin Performing
French conjuror Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) performing a magic trick using a Impression instantanee (instant printing) machine in the mid 19th century. Date: circa 1840

Sunday Evening Meeting in Haslar Hospital, 1858
The late Sir Edward Parrys Sunday evening reading in one of the wards of Haslar Hospital, Hampshire. Date: 1858

The Prize Fight, 1814 and 1914
Depictions of the Prize Fight, of 1814 (above) and of 1914 (below). In the earlier version there is as much fighting in the crowd as there is in the boxing ring. Date: July 1914

Mr Charles Birkin and Miss Margaret Whigham
Miss Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured at the first night of the new revue

Childrens entertainment on a beach -- they are probably watching a Punch and Judy show

Toscanini conducts, the audience admires
The " gallery gods" on an evening when Arturo Toscanini is conducting. Date: 1912

Cardiff Eisteddfod, 1850
The Cardiff Atheneaum Eisteddfod at the town hall, 1850. Date: 1850

Race walking in the Bois de Boulogne
A crowd watch as the race-walkers stride past, having just jumped over a small fence and across and puddle. Date: 1885

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

Fathers sack race in Seaford
Sporting fathers take part in a sack race designed specially for them at a school sports day in Seaford, Sussex. Several of them have fallen over, or are in the process of doing so. Date: 1934

Ladies orchestra, 1875
An orchestra of musical ladies delights an audience of gentlemen with their playing. In addition to the more usual stringed instruments

Sinaia - Romania - The New Market area
An orchestral concert in the Park - Sinaia, Romania. A mountain resort in Prahova County, the town was named after the Sinaia Monastery (itself named after the Biblical Mount Sinai and pictured here)

The Distraction, by H. M. Bateman
Auction room audience pausing to watch an attractive lady entering the hall. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

Javanese Dancers
Seated dancers performing an artistic number for the middle class audience, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Watching a Brass Band
An audience in a London park enjoy the music of a brass band playing on a bandstand. late 1930s

Leighton Gives Address
FREDERICK, LORD LEIGHTON artist, depicted addressing an audience. Date: 1830 - 1896

British Gymnastics Display with announcer & seated audience
Unintentionally hilarious photographic postcard of a British Gymnastics Display with announce/trainer (armed with a megaphone) and a very reserved seated audience

Hue, Vietnam - Bellringer outside Palace Audience Chamber
Hue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam - The bellringer outside one of the Audience Chambers of the Royal Palace and possibly his (very) young apprentice! Date: circa 1910s

A New Seaside Tenor
A new Seaside Tenor launches into his signature tune. It looks as if the audience may just be making use of the extra exit in case of emergency... " Please vacate the aria !!! " Date: 1901

A rough sketch by Phil May inside a Chinese Theatre. Date: 1890s

Moki Snake Dance, Arizona, USA Date: 1902

Scarlet Merrions performing at Faulkes Cave, Llandudno
The Scarlet Merrions (variety act) performing at Faulkes Cave, Great Ormes Head, Llandudno. Date: circa 1910s

Russian villagers dancing Date: 1904

A professor explaining to an audience the nature of a balloo
A professor filling and explaining to an audience the nature of a balloon

Diplodocus carnegii, presented by Mr Andrew Carnegie and unv
The Reptile Gallery of The Natural History Museum, London (the Diplodocus exhibit was subsequently rehoused in the Museums Central Hall)

Darwin Centre Live Presentation
Scientist giving a presentation in the Darwin Centre to a live audience

Chariot race (3rd c. ). Roman art. Early Empire
Chariot race (3rd c.). Roman art. Early Empire. Mosaic. SPAIN. Madrid. National Museum of Archaeology

Palace of Darius I. Apadana or Audience Hall. 6th c. BC. IRAN. FARS. Persepolis. Palace of Darius. Persian art. Achaemenid period

Une audience de police correcctionnelle. Illustration by Delarye. Printed by Victor Ratier circa 1830. Paris. Litography

Persian soldier carvings, Persepolis
Apadana or Audience Hall of Darius I. West staircase depicting Persian soldiers. Persepolis, Iran Date: 6th-4th Century BCE

The Zoo Keeper
People You See. From Teddy Bear (21 November 1964)

Grays Telephone System
A demonstration of the telephone system of Elisha Gray in New York. Gray filed a patent for the telephone on the same day as Bell, but his initial delay proved costly! Date: 1878

Acad Francaise 1900
A crowded meeting, of mostly men, but with two women in the audience Date: 1900

Ladder demonstration at Annual Review, Lambeth HQ
Demonstration at the Annual Review, Lambeth Headquarters

LCC-LFB Period fire display at Southwark HQ
London firefighters putting on a weekly display for the public at Southwark, Brigade Headquarters. They are using a Victorian manual fire pump in a reenactment of the days of horse drawn fire engines

Professor demonstrating a balloon
A Professor filling and explaining to an audience the nature of a balloon. 1784

Crowd at Punch and Judy Show
Crowd watching a Punch and Judy show, Hereford, 1898 Date: 1898

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