Drum Collection (page 6)

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

A Kabyle musician with her Tam-Tam. Algeria, North Africa
A 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 scrap
Father 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 postcard
Three frogs playing musical instruments on a French April Fool postcard. Date: circa 1900s

War of the Succession of Landshut (1503-1505). Siege of Kufs
War 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 Morocco
Chleuh (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, Netherlands
Dinner 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, Cornwall
Corps 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, USA
Chins 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 drum
Renaissance style musical angel playing a drum, in the style of Fra Angelico. Date: circa 1910

Parade of students, Dar-es-Salaam, East Africa
Parade of students to a festival site, Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa (now Tanzania). Date: circa 1910

Japanese infantry musicians, one beating a drum (taiko).. Handcolored woodcut from Auguste Wahlens Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World, Brussels, 1845

Samoyedic people of Siberia and shaman with drum.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Baritone opera singer Leonard Hermann-Leon as the drum-major Gritzenko in L Etoile du Nord.. Handcoloured lithograph by Alexandre Lacauchie from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris 1853

Dutch scouts marching, Exhibition Square, York
Dutch scouts marching with drums and flags through Exhibition Square, York, UK. with York Minster in the background. Date: 1948

Boy scouts and leader of 1st Cairo Troop, Egypt
Boy scouts and leader (DSM Harvey) of 1st Cairo Troop, Egypt

Boys of Barberton Scout Troop, South Africa, being inspected by the British Consul at Lourenco Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique

Anita Harris, actress and singer, performing on stage

Saxs new musical instruments
The new saxhorn, trombone and saxophone: musical instruments developed by Adolphe Sax. Date: 1864

Six illustrations from a theatre production of Drake, a pageant-play in three acts by Louis Napoleon Parker, starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Sir Francis Drake

Fruit Label -- Agustin Gozem Gaya
Fruit Label -- imported from Spain by Agustin Gomez Gaya, depicting a boy playing jazz rhythms a set of drums. Date: 20th century

Shaman of Yakutsk, Russia
Shaman of Yakutsk - the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia. Among the Siberian Chukchis peoples, a shaman is interpreted as someone who is possessed by a spirit who demands that someone

Young Mapuche Indians - South America
Young Mapuche Indians. The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. Date: circa 1906

Highlander / Yeoman Warder / Drum Major / Life Guard
(Left to right) Officer from the Gordon Highlanders - A Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London (Yeoman Gaoler) - Drum Major from The Grenadier Guards - Corporal from The Life Guards

Ethiopian Musicians
Five Ethiopian Musicians - a popular beat combo of the region (possibly called Oasis !)

Central African Republic - Baya People (Gbaya), comprising 34% of the population

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Ashanti implements and weapons
A. Sanko, musical instrument B. Cushion C. Ashanti Ministers state bag D. Fantee stool, cut out of solid block of cotton wood E. and F. War Greegrees or charms made of leather and straw worked in G

Girl and Dog / Drum C1880
A little girl and her dog lament over a broken drum

Pudding for the Army
PUDDING FOR THE ARMY ! Christmas Pudding escorted in by soldiers in full dress

Victorian Scrap - Drummer Bandsman. late 19th century

Mr Osbaldiston in the role of Andreas Hofer, the patriotic innkeeper of a Tyrolean village at the time of an invasion by Napoleon and his army, in a play entitled Hofer, The Tell of Tyrol

Children playing musical instruments
Two children play musical instruments while their dog is a reluctant drummer. Date: c.1920

British toys during WW1 - drums in a British toy factory
A girl making drums at an English toy factory. Stronger articles than the German variety. Before the war, Germany had been the premier supplier of toys to Britain

Drum band in traditional uniform
Unidentified drum band in traditional uniform. Date: circa 1910

Brass band of soldiers, Vancouver, USA
Brass band of soldiers, Main Street, Vancouver, Washington State, USA. Date: circa 1920

Brass band of American cavalry soldiers, USA
Brass band of American cavalry soldiers practising in a field, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1910

Khartoum, Sudan - welcoming Ramadan
Khartoum, Sudan - welcoming the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and the month in which the Quran was revealed

The New Combination Drum and Multi Movement mixer
A suggestion by William Heath Robinson for the next Irish sweepstake. 1933

Beating the tom-tom, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Natives in a village beating the tom-tom, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1920

Germany. Magdeburg. 16th century. Party. Musicians playing and people dancing. Engraving in Liber Chronicorum, by Hartman Schedel

Academic Rifle Corps marching, Malmo, Sweden
Members of the Academic Rifle Corps and University Rifles marching in the streets of Malmo, Sweden, on 7 or 8 May 1921. Date: 1921

WW1 - To My Dear One - A Drummer pens a poem to his love, using his magnificent bass drum as a writing stand. " Though from your side I am away; My thoughts are with you night & day; With eyes

Victorian scrap - Santa with lantern, tree and presents
Victorian scrap - Santa Claus holding a paper lantern, Christmas tree and presents. late 19th century

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