Drums Collection (page 7)

Austrian Brass Band in traditional country costume. Date: circa 1910s

Band and parade at Mettray Colony, France
A band and parade of inmates at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France. In the 1840s, the colony pioneered the cottage homes system where boys lived in small

Military band with instruments in front of a tent
A military band, the Brecknockshire Battalion South Wales Borderers, together with their instruments, including six drums, posing for their photo in front of a tent

Military band at a country house, Crickhowell, Mid Wales
A military band in the grounds of a large country house in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. Various civilians are walking around, enjoying the gardens and fountain

Grenadier Guards drummers, Trengwainton House, Cornwall
The Corps of Drums of the Grenadier Guards performing on the front lawn of Trengwainton House in Penzance, Cornwall in front of a large audience

Music and dancing in India
A group of people playing music and dancing in India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Poster advertising Gold Coast Cocoa
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board advertising Gold Coast Cocoa. In return, British goods are exported to the Gold Coast, totalling several millions of pounds in value

Egypt - Group of Mevlevi Dervishes with ney players and drummer. The Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes of Konya (Konia). This Dervish order was founded in memory of Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

Group of Egyptian Whirling Derivishes
Group Egyptian Dervishes. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Carnival in Barcelona
A carnival procession travels down the street with crowds gathering on their balconies to watch the musicians and entertainers go by

Aden, Yemen - Chieftains Camel
An Arabian Chieftains camel and drummer boy with his kettle drums - Aden, Yemen

India - Indian Dancing Girl and Musicians
India - Indian Dancing Girl and two Musicians, one playing tabla drums and the other playing an unusual stringed instrument

Izmir, Turkey - Nationalist Procession
A Nationalist procession/rally in a backstreet in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. The people carry Turkish flags and a banner of a large Mosque

Egypt - Kettle Drum players riding on camels
Two kettle drum players - their drums mounted onto the flanks of camels. They are ceremonial players, providing music for traditional social or religious corteges, parades or processions

Musical crackers
Colourful Christmas cracker box label from the 1920s featuring a picture of a group of children playing musical instruments

North West Frontier Province, Peshawar - Dancers
Dancing Girls of Peshawar, North-west Frontier Province, ready for the dance

The Sphere front cover: Queen Elizabeth II
Front cover from The Sphere of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh being serenaded by the drums of the Orangemen outside Government House, Hillsborough

The band of HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey - Khedive of Egypt
The band of HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey (also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha) (1874 - 1944) - the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1892 - 1914)

Ashanti war drums, 1874
Ashanti war drums by a wall. In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Artefacts collected by H. M. Stanleys Anglo-American Expedit
Engraving showing a number of artefacts collected by Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Anglo-American expedition of 1874-1877. The native African items depicted include knives, pipes, shields, spears

Mexicans Celebrate Age
The Aztecs celebrate the beginning of a new age with tribal dancing and drums, before the Conquest by the Spanish

Roman Legion
The Roman Legion returns with drums beating to Rome, after taking Velletri

Teaching drums
Three children are instructed in the art of beating time on a drum by a soldier

Making Toy Drums 1890
Le montage des tambours - assembling drums

Wurlitzer Drums
Trap drum outfit from the Wurlitzer catalogue. You get not only drums but Cow Bell, Tambourine, Cymbals and Whistle !

Racial /s Africa / Bari-Neg
War dance of the Bari-Neger of Mozambique, south-east Africa: the musicians work the warriors up into a frenzy of blood lust

Nautch Girl / India
A Nautch (dancing) girl performing. Her footwork is accompanied by drums & cymbals which beat out complicated rhythmic cycles

Military Drummers
Drummers of the French Armee d Afrique at practice

Racial / Drum / Herb Dance
Native American men & women dancing with drums and herbs

Popular Music / Dance / 40S
Popular music and dancing of the forties

Racial / Dance Battle 1830
An after-battle dance in honour of those fallen in battle

Learning Music
Studying and practising music on a wide range of instruments under the supervision of a teacher

Grandville Steam Orch
A steam orchestra with, drums, cello, violin, french horn and trombone

Blanching & Drying Coins
The blanching room is where blanks, after annealing, have their surfaces polished. After this the coins are dried in revolving drums

Toy Musical Instruments
Toy musical instruments, including drums and horns

Union of Railwaymen
Members of the Bermondsey branch of the National Union of Railwaymen pose for a photograph with their Workers of the World Unite banner and their marching drums

The Childrens Band
Six children, some young, some VERY young, prepare to give us a sextet for drums, horns and combs-and-paper

Wagner / Kikeriki / Vienna
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in heaven: Thank you for your welcome, dear angels, but without drums and trumpets you ll never make an impression!

Racial / C Africa / Med Man
Central African medicine man with apparatus and attendant musicians and dancers

Gibraltar Given to Brits
The Marques de Salines resigns Gibraltar to the British

Music Class 1900
A music lesson at a German school. One teacher plays the piano while another conducts the schoolchildren, who play an assortment of instruments, including tambourines, etc

Alice and the Drums
DRUMS Alice covers her ears to the sound of the drums

Hogarth / Industry / Idle 6
6. The industrious prentice out of his time and married to his masters daughter

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