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Paranormal: William S. Marriott fake seance with flying banjoA banjo floats mysteriously in the air at one of William S. Marriotts fake seances, thanks to a hook in the curtain, manipulated by the medium. Date: 1910
An extended African-American family round the fire Date: circa 1890s
Betty Balfour at Antibes, French RivieraThe famous English film actress, Betty Balfour, pictured standing on a table playing a banjo at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. Date: 1928
Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi and Alexander HendersonCartoon, Monsieur Jacobi, theatre director (in the background) -- I had engaged to give those people a taste of The Beggar Student, and now there is Alexander Henderson on the same job
Music cover, Dearie Mine, by Meredith and ThorburnMusic cover, Dearie Mine, vocal waltz, with words by Joe Meredith and music by Billy Thorburn, featured and broadcast by The Savoy Havana Band and recorded by The Savoy Orpheans at the Savoy Hotel
Man playing the banjo with a cigarette in his mouth. circa 1940s
Christmas card in the shape of a banjo. Date: circa 1890s
Five musical owls on a cutout New Year card, three playing banjos, one on tambourine and one with bones. Date: circa 1890s
Banjo on a Victorian New Year scrap, with verse on either side and two young women performing on the banjo and the violin (open). Date: circa 1890s
Two clowns on a rocking horse on a movable cutout cardTwo clowns, one with a banjo, on a rocking horse on a movable cutout card. Date: circa 1890s
Cat playing a banjoVictorian postcard illustration of a cat playing a banjo. Date: 1900
Happy Families Animals - Mr Seal. circa 1940s
Cartoon, English actors will soon be crowded out. 1880
Three frogs playing banjos on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
A Montmartre AtelierA model dances to banjo music in an atelier in Montmartre, Paris (France). Date: 1907
The cake walk at the carnivalDancer with her banjo player doing the cake walk. Late Victorian.Date: circa 1900
Ma Sunbeam GirlTraditional song with music. Image depicting a black minstrel playing a banjo. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1904
Minstrel with a banjoI m crezy bout you baby. Black minstrel strumming his banjo.Date: circa 1910
Musicians in the snow on a New Year card, about to have something poured on them from a jug. circa 1890s
Banjo with family scene, Home Sweet Home. Date: circa 1890s
Central Cafe Orchestra, Juarez, Chihuaha, Mexico. The cafe at the time was owned bys G Gonzalez. Date: 1928
Sailors camping party, Virago Sound, CanadaSailors camping party, Virago Sound, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. They belong to HMS Egeria, a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship. Date: 1907
Advertisement for Wurlitzer musical instuments. Available for home trial, easy payment on credit available. Date: 1923
British soldiers outside dugout, Western Front, WW1Two British soldiers outside their dugout on the Western Front in France during World War One. One of them is playing a small banjo. Date: circa 1916
Frank & Raymond Hills Los Angeles Dance Orchestra, previously resident at the Hotel Negresco, Nice, France. Their instruments include violin, saxophone, banjo, piano, drums, trombone and euphonium
Chelsea SupportersA group of Chelsea Football Club supporters, mostly women and one of them playing a banjo, during a Cup Tie. Date: early 1930s
Sunbathing GirlsThree girls set out for a spot of sunbathing with their banjolele! Date: early 1930s
Three young black boys singingBlackville Seranade - one of a series of postcards depicting black American country music - here, three young American black boys sing accompanied by a homemade banjo sat around a stile
Blind Musician, Bermuda with three young children persussionists accompanying his banjo playing. All are wearing remarkable costumes (which must have been seriously hot!). Date: circa 1909
African American in tuxedo and top hat, seated, playing banjo. Date c1890
Pierrot serenading pierrettePierrot is seranading pierrot with a banjo. Date: 1902
Jazz band, 1919A stylized black jazz band performs on stage. Date: 1919
Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, Oxford Street, London W1Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, 32 Oxford Street, London W1, with Madame Cecile Couturier, Director, on the violin, and her happy band of men on their various instruments
Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band, c. 1922Bert Ralton and his New York Havana Band recording c. 1922, using the acoustic method. Date: c.1922
British in Burma 1889Officers relax after a hard day bashing rebels who resent British presence in their country. Date: 1889
A Pierrot playing the banjo wishes the recipient of this postcard every good wish for a Merry Xmas Date: circa 1910s
Performers at an amateur concertActors and musicians performing at an amateur concert in the 19th century
Zip Goes a Million theatre programmeTheatre programme front cover designed by Arthur Ferrier with George Formby, star of the musical revue, Zip Goes a Million, playing his banjo, wearing a crown and trailing a number of enthusiastic
Zip Goes a Million / George FormbyColour theatre programme cover for a music revue, Zip Goes a Million with George Formby in a starring role. The front cover picture depicts a caricature of George playing his banjo
A monkey in costumeA woman holds a mirror to a monkeys face, clearly pleased with how the make-over has gone. The creature, wearing a tricorne hat and military jacket, seems slightly less impressed by it all
Emigrants sighting land, 1871Engraving showing a scene on the deck of an emigrant ship, as the passengers sight land, 1871. In the foreground a lady is sewing and a family with very young children look anxiously towards land
Cake Walking CoupleA black banjo-player and his white partner, both in carnival costume - is this New Orleans ? - perform the cake- walk
Petticoat Lane / 1960SPETTICOAT LANE An impromptu jazz band passes through the market on a busy day
Lady Plays the BanjoA lady plays the banjo on the deck of a houseboat on the Thames : a friend listens
Card; Doggy MinstrelA doggy minstrel plays a banjo
Three musical automata, including a Japanese lady with a parasol, and a banjo player