B Alls Collection (page 2)

Crowd in auditorium
Balls, Motion Pictures. Interior of an unidentified auditorium with employees of motion picture distribution and sales companies attending a ball

Masquerade Ball
Ball, Twelfth Night Masquerade, Stevens Residence

Patient playing darts, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a patient in dressing gown and pyjamas playing darts in a rest room

Music cover for The Real Irish Polkas, as danced at Her Majestys Balls, Almack s, and the Opera Houses of Milan, Paris, Vienna, London, etc

Southern Croatian Man
Like the Hero - a southern Croatian man in traditional costume, albeit in very Albanian-style trousers

1950S PARTY
An illustration depicting a party of debutante ball with several young ladies in full skirted dresses helping themselves to the buffet while predatory young men in tuxedos look smug

Operating the Velox Plate-Graining Machine at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Balling up knitting yarn
The machine used to ball up knitting yarn ready for sale. Picture taken in the massive Darlington factory of Patons & Baldwins. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Turkish rug manufacture
The manufacturing of Turkish carpets. Women sit at the base of a large loom, with the different coloured balls of wool hanging on an upper strut

Captured Turkish Guns - 1915
Captured Turkish guns, manufactured by Krupp (77s) in the Old European Castle with piles of ammunition. War in the Dardanelles - 1915. Sed Dul-Bahr

Conjuror entertains a crowd
Louis-Philippe, proclaimed citizen king of France at the July revolution of 1830, is shown as a street conjuror, entertaining the crowds. HPG/8/2/1 (xi)

Magician performing the cup and balls trick in front of a se
Undated illustration of a magician performing the cup and balls trick in front of a seated audience, entitled " Champy dit Connus". HPG/8/2/1 (xxxi)"

Man and woman magicians performing tricks at table
Undated copy of colour illustration entitled, A moi la premiere partie! A moi la derniere!! showing man and woman magicians performing tricks at table. (Imprint. Chez Aubert and Cie)

Magician performing the cup and balls trick to a small crowd
Undated illustration of magician performing the cup and balls trick to a small crowd, entitled " Rien dan les mains rien dans les peches je ne vous trompe pas mais..." (a Paris chez Albert)

Magician performing the cup and balls trick to an assembled
Undated illustration of magician performing the cup and balls trick to an assembled crowd, entitled " Le Joueur de Gobelets". HPG/8/2/1 (xxxvi)"

Poster advertising a masked ball during a national fair in Switzerland, from 2 to 4 March 1936

Carnival games
A group of young boys and men throw balls, aiming them at the heads of the poor men who have the unlucky job of acting as the targets

Clock of St Georges Church, Esher, Surrey
A close-up view of part of the clock of St Georges Church in Esher, Surrey. The clock dates from the late 16th or early 17th century

Policemen from Monaco alongside cannon
Policemen from Monaco alongside ceremonial cannon. Possibly the original starting gun for the original Monaco Grand Prix!

Golf as I know it
Cartoon, Golf as I know it. Some curious cases of lost ball. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1922

Isparta - Turkey
Isparta - famour for rugs and growing roses which are distilled into Attar of Roses which is used in the perfume trade to this day

Woman & Balloons C1930
A woman with some colourful festive balloons

Franco-Prussian War. Battle at Petit Bicetre. Grave of a Pru
Newly dug grave with make shift wooded cross. On top of the grave lies the soldiers prussian spiked helmet and 3 cannon balls

Young Victorian Girl
Young Victorian girl holding her green balloon

Rubber : Columbus
Columbus, during his second voyage, finds the natives of Haiti playing games with rubber balls

SEA BATTLE 1550 - 1
A naval combat in northern waters - two ships sling cannon balls at each other, one loses her mast

Children Playing Ball
Group of boys on each others shoulders, stand in a circle and play catch

Ladies Ball Practice
Female athletes exercise by throwing large balls into the air, whilst outdoors in winter snow

Juggling on Horseback
A girl with Barnum & Baileys circus, juggles four balls which standing on the back of a cantering horse

Pawnbroker Sign / 1940S
Symbol of the pawn shop, the Three Golden Balls was adapted from the arms of the Medici financiers who came to this country from Italy in 1282 to lend money to English Kings

Various Battlefields
Valleys, mountains, woodland, fields, water, ice - each kind of terrain calls for different military strategies, ranging from incendiary cannon-balls to invasion barges

Bombards 1555
Bombards firing on a city

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

Science / Instruments
Collision balls, used to demonstrate the laws of impact

Fireball at Cartagena
A great globe of fire, in the space of some minutes, broke into four lesser balls, which flew off towards the four cardinal points, attended with a clap of thunder

English Artillery / 14th C
English soldiers with artillery, long bow & cross bow

Snow Fight 1940S
Three young people enjoying a snow fight

Making Crystal Balls
Men and women cutting crystal balls for fortune-telling

Moth Ball Man
Mothball man - be sure to pack one of these fellows away with your fur coat this summer and the moths will not go near it!

Serious Game of Billiard
Nursing the balls

Weighing Ivory Tusks
From jungle to dressing table. Weighing elephant tusks for making into brush handles, billiard balls and other beautiful objects for ladies dressing tables

Cannon Balls 18C
Measuring and transporting cannon balls

Girls Playing Ball
Two young girls playing catch

Petrocsy Helicopter
Austrian lieutenant Stefan Petrocsy proposes a remarkable helicopter design in which the cockpit is above the rotating blades : note, too, the balls serving as undercarriage

French Ball-Boy / 1629
French page in sporty gear including flamboyant hat, and sword ready to pick up the stray balls of his masters game

All Shall have Dowries
- Two more charity balls, my dears, and you ll all have dowries !

Drugs / Opium Factory - 5
OPIUM FACTORY AT PATNA, INDIA for the Chinese trade The stacking room, where the opium, made up into balls, is stacked awaiting transport

Drugs / Opium Factory - 4
OPIUM FACTORY AT PATNA, INDIA for the Chinese trade The drying room, where the opium, made up into balls while wet, dries out

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