Checkers Collection

Hilda Simms (cover of Checkers)
Hilda Simms (1918-1994) African American actress who came to Britain in 1947 in her Broadway success Anna Lucasta. Checkers was a short-lived black British magazine. Date: 1948

Seeing multiples / Photography trick
Photographers became more experimental with the portraits they could photograph. In this example the same man appears multiple time within the same frame. Date: 1902

Medieval men playing wall tennis, checkers and hoops
Medieval men bat a ball against a board mounted on a wall (wall tennis or pelota?), some play drafts or checkers, others roll hoops and jump through hoops

Early scene of two men playing draughts. Date: medieval

Men smoke and play a game of checkers in Canton, China
Viewed from above, a group of men smoke and play a game of checkers in a Canton street, Guangzhou, China Date: 1986

The Orphans - two children play draughts, watched by a woman. 19th century

China. Men playing draughts in a tavern. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Priests playing checkers, Japan
Priests playing checkers on a board, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Chinese Board Game
Teenage boys in Shanghai, China, playing Chinese Checkers or a similar board game. Date: 1930s

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