Balancing Collection (page 5)

Indian street Gymnastic and Acobatic Display Date: circa 1910s

Corsica - Corsican woman with bucket on her head
Corsica - Corsican woman carrying a hard timber wooden bucket on her head, her other hand holding a jar (possibly containing oil?). Date: 1920s

Going to market - Jamaica Date: circa 1910s

Martinique - Elegant Banana Seller
Martinique (an overseas region of France in the Lesser Antilles - eastern Caribbean Sea) - An elegant Banana Seller Date: circa 1910s

Jamaican Banana Sellers, carrying impressive loads on their heads. Date: circa 1908

A blind man walks across Niagara Date: 1912

Balancing rock and statues - Moulmein - Monkey statues around the Karen girls figures outside and the balancing rock above. Date: 1951

Woman weighing love and a butterfly on scales
Love is the Lightest. Woman weighing love and a butterfly on scales. Date: 1847

Prince Philip sailing in his youth
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured as a young man on a boat. Date: c.1936

Fruiterers Sports Day, Crystal Palace, London

Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, Brittany
Milkmaid and Milk Seller at Hennebont, in the Morbihan department of Brittany, France. Date: circa 1910s

Empire Exhibition - South Africa
Empire Exhibition - Johannesburg, South Africa, 1936. A group of native ladies carrying large gourds filled with beer on their heads

Parsi Athletes - Calcutta
Parsi (Zoroastrian) Athletes in Calcutta, India. Date: circa 1910s

India - Women carrying milk on their heads in stacked pots Date: circa 1910

Military Gymnastics, Ambala, India
British Military gymnastics at the troop barracks at Ambala, in the state of Haryana, India. Date: circa 1910s

France - Elderly water carrier
A really extraordinary photographic postcard of an elderly lady water carrier smoking a pipe at Morlaix, Brittany, France Date: circa 1910s

Namibia - Ovambo water carriers
Owambo (Ovambo) water carriers, Namibia, Africa Date: circa 1910s

Old French Water Carrier smoking a pipe
Old French Water Carrier from Morlaix, Brittany - smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1910s

Indian Circus Entertainers - Gustav Hagenbeck Date: circa 1910s

Kazakhstan - Cossack standing on horseback Date: circa 1906

Malawi, Blantyre - Water Carrier
Malawi, Blantyre (Mandala) (British Central Africa) - Young female Water Carrier Date: circa 1920

Argentina - Tandil - The Moving Stone ( La Piedra Movediza ) Date: circa 1910s

Keep Fit Classes on holiday
Girls exercising under the guidance of a fully trained instructor at the French coastal resort of Trouville, France, where a well-equipped gymnasium has been built on the beach by the local

Joseph Chamberlain - Balancing Act
Fiscalitis Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) performs a balancing act, standing precariously on a glass globe entitled Class whilst juggling a loaf of bread

Gymnastics display, Market Weighton Reformatory, Yorkshire
A gymnastics display by inmates of the Yorkshire Roman Catholic Reformatory for Boys at Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, opened in 1856

Young boy sliding on the ice with his dog
A young boy slides on the ice, his dog trotting happily alongside

See-Saw by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Four children play together on a rudimentary see-saw, although one little girl seems to have fallen off one end

Circus performers in a packed arena. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Plate Dancing Women, Morocco
The Dance of Shikhat - plate dancing women in Morocco

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

The Village Conjuror
A small boy impresses a group of children and their nurse, by balancing a mop on the end of his chin

Playbill for Maskelyne & Cooke magical variety show
Playbill for performances of the show The Novelty of the Age, featuring magicians Maskelyne and Cooke, held at Berkley Castle, Blackpool, January 1870

Summer Nightmares
A Good Suggestion For Stuffy Summer Nights. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Igorote woman carring water pots and a baby. Igorot are the people of the Cordillera region, on the Philippino Island of Luzon

Indian child gymnast atop a long pole
A tiny Indian child Gymnast rather precariously held aloft by a long pole!

Porter carrying a heavy load
A Porter bends his back to carry a heavy barrel - Constantinople, Turkey

Carrying water - Luxor, Egypt
Luxor, Egypt - Native girl carrying water on her head in a large amphora

Dutch Tightrope Walker
This female Dutch tightrope walker performed in London during the reign of James II - the print is dated 1794

Balancing Bear / Rountree
A small bear walks precariously along a telegraph wire while balancing a red ball on his nose, thinking, I Wonder What It Is?

Balancing Acrobats / Photo
A woman balances on the shoulder of a man, and she strikes a pose

Vegetable Seller, Paris
A working class woman in Paris, selling vegetables from a basket balanced on her head

50S Swimwear / Photo
Pretty, blonde model, balancing on a ladder, poses in a one-piece bathing costume with cut out back detail & halter neck

Advert / Anchor Thread 1 / 2
Clarks Anchor Thread - balancing (1 of 2)

London Coster / Scrap
A London costerman, balancing a basket of fruit on his head, calls out to attract trade; his apprentice rides a carrot- chewing mule laden with more produce

3 Street Arabs 1880
Three street boys doing a balancing act

Father / Children 1852
A father out in the garden with his two children. Date: 1852

Girl with Kittens 19C
A little girl with a kitten balancing on her shoulder and two more in a basket

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