Balls Collection (page 5)

Golf / Advice from Pro
Advice from the pro Date: 1933

Is it Worth It? Page from The Sketch on debutante season
Page from The Sketch featuring an article by the photographer Tom Hustler reporting on whether the season, for the debutante was worth it

Music cover, The Silver-Lake Varsoviana, composed by W H Montgomery, danced at all the Nobilitys Balls. 1850s

Advert for Alexander Clark novelty jewellery 1901
Edwardian novelty jewellery, aromatic scented lucky pigs and spheres containing a woollen pad saturated with a fragrance, leaving a beautiful odour, comes in gold

Advertisement for Southvale Hawk golf ball
Advertisement for the Southvale Hawk rubber core golf ball, known for its durability. Date: early 20th century

Advertisement, Miss M E Fisher, theatre costumier, fancy dress balls, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London. 1883

The 1958 Season - Dresses for Dancing into the Dawn
Two suggestions for dance dresses for debutantes for the 1958 Season, the last year in which debs were presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace

Costumes from The Dazzle Ball
Attendees of The Dazzle Ball in costumes inspired by dazzle camouflage from the First World War, at the Albert Hall, March 12 1919. Date: 1919

Chelsea Arts Dazzle Ball
People dancing in dazzle costume at The Dazzle Ball, Albert Hall, March, 1919 Date: 1919

Women in dazzle fancy dress for the Chelsea Arts Ball
Examples of women dressed in dazzle fancy dress for the Chelsea Arts Ball at the Albert Hall in March 1919. Date: 1919

Three Arts Ball at The Albert Hall
An impression of the Dazzle Ball at The Albert Hall, 1919 Date: 1919

Three dogs throwing snowballs on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mother Christmas on a Christmas card -- With trumpets and with drums, Lo! Mother Christmas comes. Date: circa 1890s

Girl and doll on a New Year card
Girl with Punch doll and ball on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Two cats on a cutout Christmas card, enjoying a game of billiards. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian Scrap, soldiers -- private in full dress, officer in undress, infantry of the line. circa 1880s

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

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

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

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

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

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

Billiard room, hotel in Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
Billiard room in the Grand Hotel Chateau Bellevue, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland

Repeated design featuring knitted clothing, c. 1940s
A 1940s repeated pattern featuring knitted garments, needles and wool. c. 1941

The Vision Feminine
An ilustration showing a woman knitting during WW1 and using a specific technique with a ball of wool. Date: 1916

Irene Castle in her Victory Ball costume
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. Also lauded as a leader of fashion and arbiter of style

Pug Peter -- a bear gathering fallen oranges
Pug Peter -- Orange Balls for the Cricket Match. A bear gathering fallen oranges. Date: 1905

The new game of push ball
A new game introduced from America played at Headingley, Leeds, involving the pushing and rolling of a huge ball measuring 18 feet in circumference and with rules similar to football

A Society ball in a London mansion during the Season
An impression of one of the many formal Society balls in a big London mansion during the Season showing an ambassador approaching two ladies (possibly with his dance card)

A breath of air on the balcony at a London ball
A couple in evening dress take a moment to enjoy some fresh air by an open window or balcony, during a ball at one of the great London mansions at the height of the London Season. 1930

Debutantes at Queen Charlottes Ball
All in white with scarlet satin hearts around their necks (a gift from Schiaparelli), debutantes at the Queen Charlottes Ball of 1939. Date: 1939

Dancing to Tommy Kinsmans band at Quaglino s
A ball during the 1959 London Season held at Quaglinos in aid of the National Playing Fields Association and Surrey County Cricketers

Duchess of Gloucester cuts cake, Queen Charlottes Ball
The Duchess of Gloucester (1901 -2004) cutting the giant cake holding 194 electric candles representing the number of years since the birth of Queen Charlotte at the ball named after her

Guests arrive at a ball during the London Season, 1886
Hundreds of guests ascend the stately staircase of a large hall inside a London mansion to attend a ball or reception during the London Season. Date: 1886

The Debutantes Birthday Ball - Queen Charlotte s
Scenes at Grosvenor House for Queen Charlottes Ball, the pinnacle of the Season for a debutante by the 1950s, showing the girls arriving in their white dresses

Christmas - Decorations being sold in Moscow
The interior of a 1928 Moscow shop laden with outlandish Christmas decorations available for purchase. Date: 1928

Music cover, The Piccolomini Waltz, from Verdis opera La Traviata, as performed at Almacks and the Court Balls. Marietta Piccolomini (1834-1899)

Four children gazing through shop window
Four children gazing through a toy shop window

Tennis Balls in Fence
Tennis balls lodged in a wire fence during a tennis game, England. Date: 1960s

Boring Ivory Tusks
" From jungle to dressing table." Boring ivory elephant tusks, for making into brush handles, billiard balls and other beautiful objects for ladies dressing tables. Date: February 1933

Riviera Aerobics Class
A keep fit class doing aerobic exercises with beach balls on the French Riviera, the young women copying the actions of a young male fitness instructor. Date: early 1930s

Havana, Cuba - The tiny Guard House Date: 1947

Fire Station Recreation Room

NFS (London) Officers Training Centre, Norwood SE27
A wartime social evening at the Knights Hill NFS Officers Training Centre, Norwood, London SE27

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