Drum Collection (page 12)

Bhutanese Lama, Darjeeling, India. Date: circa 1890s

Band of the 77th Regiment, India. Date: circa 1860s

Acrobat on a pole, with drummer below, India
An acrobat at the top of a pole, with a drummer below, India. Date: circa 1890s

Snake charmer, North Africa. Date: circa 1870

Japanese musical instruments - the hing kou
A group of Japanese musicans playing various instruments, including the hing kou (a drum, also known as the po-fou) and the sheng(a wind instrument)

British soldiers with improvised oven, WW1
British soldiers with an improvised oven made out of oil drums, on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Chinese troops on Western Front in France, WW1
Chinese troops on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are celebrating a dragon day with a Chinese boat display. Date: circa 1916

Anti-invasion ring of fire by G. H. Davis
Britains wall of flame: the ordeal by fire prepared for German invaders on sea, land, and in the air. Showing the details and layout of an anti-invasion ring of fire: devices for converting beaches

Street performers, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Tatler front cover, Christmas number 1915
A gloriously patriotic front cover design by Annie Fish, featuring Fishs creation, Eve, dressed in a flamboyant military uniform and waving a Union Jack flag. 1915

Man banging a drum to advertise public entertainment
A man banging a large drum to advertise some public entertainment -- business as usual, even though a war is on. Date: August 1914

Cartoon, Knuckledown Fair, showing a busy scene at a fairground. Date: early 19th century

Fruit Label -- Bat Brand, extra extra selected. Depicting a bat playing a drum. Date: 20th century

Haydns Toy Symphony performed
Performance of Haydns Toy Symphony by children of the Royal Asylum of St Anne, Redhill, Surrey. Date: 1887

Nursery Rhymes -- baby and drummer, lion
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a royal baby in a cradle is entertained by a drummer. Below -- an old lion lies on the ground. Date: early 20th century

Haydns toy symphony
Various musical instruments for children, as used in the Haydn toy symphony. Date: 1874

The Negro Reveille, Charlestown, 1856
Engraving showing a young black boy in soldiers uniform playing the flute and a young white boy playing the drum, Charlestown, 1856. Date: 1856

West Indian Oil Drums
A West Indian oil drum band. Date: 1960s

Hungarian Drummer
Barefoot children dancing to the beat of a drum in Hungary. They are rehearsing for Christmas pantomime. Date: 1930s

Sir Henry Newbolt
SIR HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT author of Drakes drum, The fighting Temeraire, and that one which ends Play up, play up, and play the game ! Date: 1862 - 1938

Repeating Pattern - Toy Drummers. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - guardsmen, yellow
Repeating Pattern - guardsmen (with yellow background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - guardsmen, red
Repeating Pattern - guardsmen (with red background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - guardsmen, white
Repeating Pattern - guardsmen (with white background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - guardsmen, blue
Repeating Pattern - guardsmen (with blue background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - guardsmen, green
Repeating Pattern - guardsmen (with green background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Repeating Pattern - guardsmen, black
Repeating Pattern - guardsmen (with black background). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Nikko, Japan - Interior Mausoleum of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
Nikko, Japan - The interior of the Mausoleum of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (Nikko Tosho-gu). Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Three Geisha Girls playing traditional instruments - two on drums and one playing the Shamisen. Date: circa 1904

China - Chinese Festivals - Mandarins and High Officials Date: circa 1908

Japanese girl - Sweet Dreams of Love
Japanese girl playing a small drum - titled Sweet Dreams of Love. Date: circa 1910

Japan - Nara Park and the Golden Pavilion, Kyoto
Japan - Nara Park and the Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion), Kyoto. The inset photographs are set within a lavish border/background featuring a Kabuki Mask and traditional Japanese drum. Date: circa 1910s

Greetings from Egypt - Amenhotep II statue - Egyptian Girl
Greetings from Egypt - featuring inset photographs of a statue of Pharoah Amenhotep II and a young Egyptian Girl Date: circa 1910s

African Tourist Gifts / Crafts for sale at a local market. Date: circa 1930s

Band of the Life Guards in State Dress, preceded by the Drum Horse bearing the famous Silver Drums presented to the Regiment by King William IV, who was then Colonel-in-Chief of the Regiment

Tamil Musicians, Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1910s

Indian Drum - Mridangam
Indian Drum - this is a type of Mridangam drum. The pieces of wood between the leather braces and the striped shell are used to assist the tuning

Indian Musicians - Ocongate, Peru. Date: circa 1934

Singapore - Kling Dancing Girl and Traditional Musicians (playing a form of the Sarangi (or Tar Shehnai?) and the Chande drum)

Frederic Mistral (18301914) - French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Felibrige

Birds on a drum-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Forward checking drum of Great Eastern, November 1857 (Howlett)

Halicoeres radiatus, puddingwife & Atractoscion nobilis, kin

Perca sp. croker & Holocentrus sp. squirrelfish
Illustration from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol 2 by Mark Catesby (1683-1749)

Little drummer boy Date: c. 1910

Chile (1836). Andacollo. Procession in St. Stephen s
Chile (1836). Andacollo. Procession in St. Stephens day. Litography

Platero and I
An Illustration by Juan Ram󮠊 im鮥 z. (1881-1958), the Spanish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956, from his prose work, Platero y yo (Platero and I)

Boys Band at Greenwich Union Cottage Homes, Lamorbey, Sidcu
The boys band, posed with their instruments, at the Greenwich & Deptford Unions cottage homes site at Lamorbey, near Sidcup, Kent. The homes name can be seen on the bass drum

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