Ball Collection (page 25)

Advertisement, Solar Tip Shoes
Advertisement for Solar Tip Shoes, made by John Mundell & Co of Philadelphia, USA. Showing girls and boys playing in their genuine Solar Tip footwear

Duck drinking from a large cup
A duck drinking from a large cup at a fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

Master Quack the duck dressed as a ballerina
Master Quack the duck dressed as the Russian ballerina, Madame Pavlova, for the fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

Rags the dog decides on his costume for a fancy dress ball -- he will go as a Horsey Gentleman, with checked jacket and cap. Date: 1914

Humpty the rabbit trying on pantalettes and crinoline in preparation for a fancy dress ball. Date: 1914

RAMC football team, WW1
Group photo, Royal Army Medical Corps football team. Date: circa 1918

Wartime Football - Association at the Front, WWI
Series of humorous vignettes drawn by H. H. Harris showing the experience of playing football at the front during the First World War

A Strategic Retreat by Harold Earnshaw, WW1
A naughty young boy beats a hasty retreat after throwing a snowball in the face of a senior Army officer. Illustration by Harold Earnshaw who in February the previous year had his arm blown off by a

Page design, my heroes, School Silhouettes
Page design for my heroes, in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting a young man kicking a football high into the air

Cover design, School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting a young woman with her pet dog

Working and knitting apron, WW1
A knitting apron, available from Elizabeth Ltd of South Molton Street, drawing inspiration from our Allies, Russian and Italy

Victory Ball
A Great War-charity pageant: At the Victory Ball Rule Britannia is sung by 4, 000 guests to the music of the massed bands of Guards following the procession of costumed characters representing

Second Lieutenant Albert Ball with Caudron G III
The 19-year-old Second Lieutenant Albert Ball (1896-1917) with a Caudron GIII of the Ruffy-Baumann School of Flying at Hendon during the summer of 1915

Woman in canary-yellow taffeta hooded cape trimmed with roses and ribbons, and ball mask.. Handcolored lithograph from Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times, by Le Comte de Reiset

Womens fashions from the late 18th century from prints of the era.. Woman in a pink dress a la Polonaise, woman in green ball gown with plumed headdress

Flower fairy dancers at a ball.. Handcolored steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from Les Fleurs Animees, Flower Fairies, Paris, Gabriel de Gonet

Regency gentleman and two elegant ladies at a ball.. Handcolored copperplate engraving by Francis Eginton from Christopher Ansteys The New Bath Guide, John Browne, Bath, 1807

Young woman in pink bikini, West Country
Young woman in pink bikini, posing with a beach ball on sand dunes, West Country. Date: circa 1980s

Cat Novelty Picture, Halifax Football Club, Yorkshire, England. On the Ball Halifax - Play Up Date: 1910s

Civil War relics, Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia, USA
Civil War relics at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1905

Baby and dog in a garden. Date: circa 1910s

Sketch cover - midnight cocktail for the Midnight Ball
Front cover of The Sketch magazine with an illustration displaying the recipe for a midnight cocktail which would be served at the magazines Midnight Ball held at the Savoy Hotel in June 1914

The 1914 Season - a Fancy Dress Ball by Matania
Late dancers leaving the Albert Hall during the first cold light of dawn after attending a fancy dress ball there during the summer season of 1914. Date: 1914

Small boy keeping goal in Balham, SW London
Small boy keeping goal in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Small boy with football in Balham, SW London
Small boy catching a football in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

An 18th century Venetian costume for Chelseas Arts Club ball
A Venetian dress of the eighteenth century suggested for the annual Chelsea Arts Ball in 1914. Date: 1914

Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal
Steel Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal Date: circa 1920s

Edwardian tennis tournament showing a man serving at a match inthe Stockport area - the shutter speed must have been excellent for the time as the ball is captured in flight Date: 1906

Lady outside Hotel
Entitled E. Bramwell at Boarding House Hotel, this lady is believed to be Ellen Bramwell, daughter of a local postmistress near Bakewell

Eyam Ball Hotel and rocks, Dovedale
Labelled as the Eyam Ball Hotel, this shows the street approaching the dwelling mentioned - it also notes the piles of rock by the front door which may have been in place for use as a flood defence

Group photo, RAOC Mustapha football team, Egypt, WW1
Group photo, RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) Mustapha Barracks football team, Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1918-1919

Football team, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, USA
Group photo of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange football team, Louisiana, USA. At the time they were playing charity games to raise money for poor children of the city. circa 1910

MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj�Relief from the south
MEXICO. VERACRUZ. El Taj� Relief from the south ball court. Depicts the sacrifice of a ball player. Classic period, c 500 - 900. Totonacan art. Sculpture

A Chinese Woman making a bobbin, Qianlong Period (1736-96) (gouache on paper). Chinese art. SWITZERLAND. Bern. Bernese Historical Museum

Scoreboards in volcanic tuff (diameter 73cm) intended for ball games. Maya art. Sculpture. HONDURAS. COPAN. Copᮮ Archaeological Museum. Proc: HONDURAS. COPAN. Copᮮ

RIBERA CIRERA, Rom஠Before the ball
RIBERA CIRERA, Romࠨ 1849-1935). Before the Dance. beg. 20th c. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Oriol Gallery

L Amour Tricote, WW1 knitting
An elegant French lady absorbed in her knitting ignores a playful cherub who is tumbling about with her ball of wool. Knitting illustration from 1914 when women on the home front of the countries at

Regency couple dancing
Christmas postcard depicting a regency couple dressed for a Christmas ball. USA. Artist: Albertine Randall Wheelan Date: circa 1908

Msai Tribesman - rests playing football after a working day as a waiter in a restaurant. near Dar es Salam - Tanzania - Africa

Dolpin using its Sonar / echo location to locate ball. dolphins will use echolocation to hunt for food hidden in sand in the seabed

Researchers - monitoring sonar sounds of a dolphin echolocating a metal ball

Collared Lemming - adult in winter fur, looks like a furry ball from its back while feeding on buds and bark of dwarf willow it digs in snow (Dicrostonyx torquatus)

Bracelet wool holder, WW1
Advertisement for a bracelet wool holder, an accessory to aid knitters who were making socks, mufflers and other comforts for soldiers during the First World War. Date: 1915

I Insouciante by Claude Shepperson
Scene outside a ball in the early 1920s with two revellers in full costume, sitting on the kerb outside, smoking and cigarette and disregarding the curious onlookers. Date: 1920

Action and Reaction by H. M. Bateman
Colonel X in 1918 - - And in 1920 A retired Army commander, who once showed unflappability in battle, is not quite so confident on the golf course when a ball whizzes past his head. Date: 1920

The Pan Ball, 1920
From left, Miss Iris Tree as a futurist Pan, Miss Viola Tree as a tree nymph and Miss Betty Chester as a Bacchante, all guests at the themed Pan Ball held at Covent Garden in aid of Barts Hospital in

WW1 knitting booklet, The Higbee Company
The Knitting Needle has again come into its own. Front cover of a small booklet published by the Higbee Company (USA) containing patterns for knitting comforts for troops during the First World War

Suffragette Votes for Women Doll
A suffragette doll wearing a brown dress and hat, holding a Votes for Women placard. The head of the doll is made from a ping pong ball with a hand painted face

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