Balancing Collection (page 2)

Mexican acrobats and performers. Aztec men performing balancing acts, and two men balancing on a pole supported by a man on his back

Toy Theatre, Mr Ducrow as the God of Fame

Silhouette, Circus Acrobats. early 19th century

Cat playing cymbals with cat and ball on a postcard
Cat playing cymbals with cat balancing a large red ball on its feet, on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Flower seller in Funchal, Madeira. Date: circa 1930s

Frolicking clowns
Two frolicking clowns balancing chairs to make a ladder. Date: 1900

Spry Maid Snags Bouquet Date: 1950

Arab Women carrying large Amphorae - Cairo, Egypt
Arab Women carrying large water Amphorae - Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1904

Baby Scouts -- telegraph wire
Baby Scouts -- While Tiny, aged just ten months and a half, brings scouting messages by telegraph. Date: 1900

BALANCING THE BOOKS
An accountant checks his ledger and balances his books before rubber stamping them. Date: 1930s

FLOWERS, PENNY A BUNCH
Flowers, penny a bunch! A woman, balancing a basket on her head, plys her trade Date: 18th century

STRAWBERRY SELLER
A woman balancing a large basket of fruit on her head cries Scarlet strawberries for sale Date: 1795

Street trade - muffin man
Muffin man coming round on Sunday would balance them on a tray on his head, ringing a large bell, calling out Muffins... Muffins.... Date: Circa 1905

Traditional flower sellers in Madeira, Portugal. Date: circa 1930s

A Kashmiri woman with a basket and pot on her head walks along a grassy ridge in the Vale of Kashmir. The Himalayan foothills in the background Date: 1989

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

Teenage Ballet Dancer. Date: 1929

Five girls doing hand-stands on the Beach - USA Date: circa 1904

Libyan Street Scene Date: circa 1920s

Paul Cinquevalli (1859 1918), German entertainer whose speciality juggling act was popular, known as (King of the Jugglers), who could catch a cannon ball on his neck

Rural Italian Woman and Child - Traditional costume
Rural Woman and Child from Abruzzo, Southern Italy - Traditional costume with distinctive copper bowls. Date: circa 1907

Elephant balancing on one leg, Sir Robert Fossetts Circus
An elephant named Monica, balancing on one leg. She belongs to Sir Robert Fossetts Circus. Date: circa 1960s

Boy sitting on elephant, Sir Robert Fossetts Circus
A boy sitting on the back of an elephant named Monica, who is balancing on one leg. They belong to Sir Robert Fossetts Circus. Date: circa 1960s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Cupids playing with red hearts on a Valentine postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Acrobat balancing pudding on nose on a Christmas card
Acrobat balancing a pudding on his nose on a Christmas and New Year card -- Balance of Currant Accounts. Date: circa 1890s

Robin with egg on a Christmas and New Year card
Robin balancing an egg on its beak on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Couple on the beach at Bournemouth - early 1960s. They are fooling about - the sandy contents of his small plastic beach bucket have been deposited on is head! Date: 1961

Fischers / Peach-faced Lovebirds - Hybrid. Ekaterinburg Zoo, Russia. Latin Agapornis fischeri & Agapornis rosiecollis

Moscow State Circus in Cornwall
Members of the Moscow State Circus performing near St Austell in Cornwall. Date: 1970s

The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou, Ivory Coast
The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou (Bonduku, Bontuku) a town in the Bondoukou Department of Ivory Coast, located in the Zanzan Region. Date: circa 1910s

Africa - Nyasaland (Malawi) - Women of Mount Zamba Date: circa 1905

Ambala, India - Women carrying chatties of water Date: circa 1910s

Russian Dancing
Russian soldiers dancing a traditional Cossack folk dance, called the Hopak (or Gopak), which originates from the Ukraine. circa 1910s

South African woman carrying goods on her head
A south african woman, carrying her baby on her back with a wide variety of other goods balanced somewhat precariously (or so it seems to the uninitiated) on her head, including pans, rugs, mats

Three acrobats doing balancing act on a high wire
Three acrobats doing a balancing act on a high wire in the open air

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

Tabby kitten balancing on a chair
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten balancing on a chair. 1950s

Tabby kitten climbing on a chair
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten climbing on a chair. 1950s

Balancing act at the Alhambra
Les Kiners-Moulins performing The Tribulations of a Soubrette, an extraordinary balancing act at the Alhambra in London in 1903. Date: 1903

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

Two ice skaters in a skating rink, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Street vendor with fruit and vegetables, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Street vendor carrying pingo baskets containing fruit and vegetables, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Native acrobats, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Native acrobats in action, one on a tightrope, Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), Madhya Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1930s

Tatler Christmas Number cover 1939
Front cover of The Tatler magazines Christmas Number featuring the Tatler character as a pantomime horse pulling aside the curtain of a Big Top to reveal a clown, acrobat and poodle. Date: 1939

Gallic cock crow for the Paris exhibtion by Gilbert James
A woman dressed in a Pierrot or clown outfit is helped in her performance by a cockerel balancing on an egg. 1899

M. Spadoni, juggler and balancer performing at the Alhambra pictured holding his assistant, who happens to be riding a bicycle, with one hand. Date: 1899

Carrying a heavy load on the head - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

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