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Johann Strauss conducting an orchestra. circa 1898
French postcard, Merry Christmas, WW1French postcard, Merry Christmas, First World War. 1914-1918
View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, WW1View of an Arras street with ruined buildings, First World War. In the foreground on the right are a few band members with their music instruments, mostly drums. circa 1915-1917
London Fire Brigade band, group photo, with brass, woodwind and percussion instruments. Date: circa 1920s
Drum Tower, Yedo, (Tokyo) Japan 1870s. Date: 1870s
Indigenous First Nation Tribe preparing for the Pow Wow 1903
Euterpean Band, Westerville, Ohio, USAMembers of the Euterpean Band (nicknamed the Rube Band of Otterbein), Westerville, Ohio, USA. Date: 1907
KITTEN ON DRUMA small kitten sits regally on a drum. Date: 1955
Victorian Scrap : BandsmenSee the handsome bandsmen come, One with a fife and one with a drum ! Date: late 19th century
RACIAL / FRENCH 1793-4A group of French citizens during the Revolution, wearing the revolutionary cap and beating a drum Date: 1793-4
SELLING ENCYCLOPAEDIASA man wearing a suit of armour, presumably to make his product more exciting, sells encyclopaedias to a crowd in the street. Date: 1857
BATTLE AMIENS 1870Battle of Amiens during the Franco-Prussian War: the Prussians 44th regiment attacks a rail embankment at Villers Bretonneux Date: 23 December 1870
CHASSEUR DRUM-MAJORThe Tambour-Major (drum-major) of the Chasseurs a pied proudly leads his drummers in parade past the Empereur Date: circa 1807
SOLDIERS PLAY DICE C19Soldiers play dice, using a large drum as their table Date: 19th century
THALBERG / SHOP / PRESENTSThe Thalberg family shopping for Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. Date: Circa 1815
The Pet of the Regiment, with Guy Rider, HalifaxThe Pet of the Regiment, with Guy Rider, PA3, Prescot Place, Halifax, Yorkshire
Suffragette Drum and Fife band - Lantern SlideSuffragette Drum and Fife band - the first composed entirely of women. Date: (insert)
English drummer boy, near Colesberg, South AfricaEnglish drummer boy, writing a letter to his mother after the victory at Colesberg, South Africa, during the Second Boer War. Just behind him, two soldiers relax at the entrance to their tent
Girl Kindergarten Orchestra - Musical group Date: circa 1910s
Machine Gun, Light, Vickers, . 303 In K Gas OperatedVickers. 303 in gas operated Class K light machine gun 1940 (c), deactivated, Special Forces/Long Range Desert Group World War Two, Middle East, with drum magazine, anti-aircraft sights
Sub Machine Gun, Thompson, . 45 In M1928A1Thompson M1928A1. 45 in sub machine gun, 1940 (c); manufactured by the Auto-Ordnance Corporation, USA; breech stamped with British War Department ownership
Machine Gun, Light, 7. 92 Mm Mg15MG15 7. 92 mm light machine gun, 1941 (c); manufactured by Heinrich Krieghoff Waffenfabrik, Suhl; issued to the German Army in World War Two; double drum magazine fitted. Date: circa 1941
Chieftain of the Roro (Bereina) people of Papua New GuineaAn incredible postcard of a Chieftain of the Roro (Bereina) people of Papua New Guinea wearing a remarkable feathered headdress and holding a traditional drum
Papua New Guinea - Elema people - Eharo MasksElema people (of the Papuan Gulf in southeast New Guinea) practicing an elaborate cycle of masked rituals. These monumental Eharo masks were created primarily for amusement
Band of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays), cavalry regiment in British Army. 1896
Musical frogs on eight Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s
Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the PBartholomeus van der Helst (1613-1670). Dutch painter. Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Munster, 1648. Rijskmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands
GERMAN DRESS 1500-1550German costumes of the first half of the 16th century: Knights, Nobles, Court Dress, Soldiers, Standard bearers & a drummer. N.B slashed clothing - Landsknecht. Date: 16th century
Cartoon, At the camp of Maurice de Saxe (1745). Elegant ladies of the theatre step out of a carriage and are kissed on the hand by the French general and Marshal of France
Spirit of 76, (Yankee Doodle)Patriotic American postcard commemorating the American Revolution. Spirit of 76, (Yankee Doodle)
Gata Bera drummers and Sinhala Dancers - Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1907
British flag and drum with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Christmas card in the shape of a drum, with two children playing cymbals and trumpet. Date: circa 1890s
The Ancient English Musket & Halbert Exercise, Plate 3. 1794
American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Boston. Citizens hostile with the British soldiers. Engraving. 19th century
Sudanese kettle drum, 1898 (c). Reputedly taken form Dervish forces at the Battle of Omdurman, 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899) 1898
A Kabyle musician with her Tam-Tam. Algeria, North AfricaA female Kabyle musician sits cross-legged holding her Tam-Tam (a type of gong). The Kabyle are a Berber ethnic group originating from Kabilya in Northern Algeria. Date: circa 1910s
Father Christmas on horse-drawn carriage on Victorian scrapFather Christmas on a horse-drawn carriage full of trees and presents on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s
Three frogs playing music on an April Fool postcardThree frogs playing musical instruments on a French April Fool postcard. Date: circa 1900s
War of the Succession of Landshut (1503-1505). Siege of KufsWar of the Succession of Landshut (1503-1505). The emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) takes the territory arround Kufstein as a reward for his mediation in the war between the duchies of Bavaria-Munich
United States. American War of Independence (1775-1783). Declaration of Independence: General Washingtons army in New York on July 9, 1776. Engraving by Howard Pyle, 1892. Coloured
Chleuh (Shilha) musicians in MoroccoChleuh (Shilha, Shluh) musicians, a Berber sub-group of Morocco. One man is playing a violin, while two others have percussion instruments. Date: circa 1930
Sudanese musician with drum in Morocco. Date: circa 1930
Cafe Restaurant Pschorr, Rotterdam, NetherlandsDinner Dance Hall of the Cafe Restaurant Pschorr, Coolsingel, Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the bandstand and a New York backdrop. Date: circa 1930s
Grenadier Guards, St Michaels Mount, CornwallCorps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards with Lord John Francis Arthur St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan (1919-2013), and his wife Lady Susan St Levan (d 2003), at their home on St Michaels Mount, Cornwall
Chins Restaurant, Broadway, New York City, USAChins Restaurant, Broadway, corner of 44th Street, New York City, USA, with band instruments on the left and a dance floor on the right. Date: circa 1920
Renaissance style musical angel with drumRenaissance style musical angel playing a drum, in the style of Fra Angelico. Date: circa 1910
Parade of students, Dar-es-Salaam, East AfricaParade of students to a festival site, Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1910