Entertaining Collection (page 3)

A Star at the Front - Gladys Cooper on Tatler front cover, 1
Gladys Cooper (1888 - 1971), English stage and screen actress, pictured on the front cover of The Tatler in January 1915. The magazine reports on her taking part in a concert party

Mayfair Catering Company advertisement 1928
Advertisement for the Mayfair Catering Company, offering everything a society hostess might need for successful entertaining during the Season from silver and glasses to flowers

Guests arrive at a ball during the London Season, 1886
Hundreds of guests ascend the stately staircase of a large hall inside a London mansion to attend a ball or reception during the London Season. Date: 1886

Miniature Golf at the Kit-Cat
An attractive addition to the pleasures of dining at the Kit-Cat Restaurant in Haymarket, central London; an entertaining nine-hole golf course in miniature, laid out in the Bray Room

Morris flip top table advertisement
The Morris Triple Fliptop table, the table that actually grows and grows and grows. The accompanying photographs show a table four ingeniously transformed into a table for ten with the help of a

Tatler front cover, Entertaining issue, 1964
Front cover of The Tatler magazine showing a girl acting hostess, representing Tatlers devotion to autumn entertaining in this particular issue

Print Users Yearbook -- people in underwear
Print Users Yearbook -- people viewed in a cutaway of a house, all in underwear. A new standard of intimacy. Who would have guessed that undies were the correct garb to don when entertaining guests

Cover of Home Chat Magazine, showing a young woman putting up lanterns for some New Year entertaining. She is wearing a red and blue patterned party dress

A Christmas Story, by C. Rebel Stanton
A colour illustration showing a young couple flirting oblivious to the the animated story teller who is entertaining the rest of the group. Date: 29th November 1929

Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
Josephine Baker began her career as an entertainer dancing on Broadway. She travelled to Paris in 1925 to star in La Revue Negre. Her exotic dance style and costume made her an instant hit

Advert for Asprey cocktail cabinets 1936
Cocktail wagon in walnut and chromium, closing mahogany with chromium mounts, walnut with rising back panel fitted with English cut glass and separate serving tray and limed oak

The Old Testament Trinity : Abraham Entertaining the Angels. Russian Icon, Moscow School, late 17th century

A duet - two singers in full flow at a concert. Date: 1895

Woodward Tablecloth

Malaspina Expedition. Vavao or Tonga Islands (1793)
Malaspina Expedition.Vavao or Tonga Islands (1793). Two Indian women entertaining Malaspina. Pencil drawing by Juan Ravenet. Drawing. SPAIN. Madrid. Americas Museum

Susanna and the Elders by Wilmot Lunt
A young pretty actress entertains two mature admirers in her dressing room, hence the play on the Biblical title to the picture. Date: 1927

Cuban Cigar Factory interior - Havana, Cuba. Interestingly, this postcard shows a lector (or reader) who was always employed to entertain cigar factory workers by reading books

Adenes le Roi, French troubadour
Adenes le Roi(c. 1240-c. 1300), French trouvere, performs to an audience of medieval ladies out of doors Date: 13th century

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1929
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number 1929 featuring a group of stylised and rather angular dinner party guests around a table. Date: 1929

Red Arrows display at St Mawgan Air Day, Cornwall
The Red Arrows (RAF aerobatic team) taking part in a display at the St Mawgan Air Day, Cornwall. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1980s

Addled Ads - Living in a HORSE
Addled Ads - WANTED: " AT ONCE. Man wanted to look after horse, to live in." 1905

Girls entertaining American GI in London bar
Two glamorous girls entertain an American GI, whose cap badge indicates he is an Infantry Paratrooper in an unidentified bar in London during World War II, while a third waits table

Heinrich Frauenlob, German poet
Heinrich Frauenlob (sometimes known as Henry of Meissen), Middle High German poet, seen here entertaining a group of people in a courtly setting. Date: between 1250/1260 - 1318

Dancers from Campanario, in Funchal, Madeira
Dancers belonging to a folklore group from Campanario, performing an old dance in the street in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira

Egyptian Dancing Monkey
An Egyptian Dancing Monkey and owner, entertaining two small boys. The Monkeys owner has him dressed in a red dress and accompanies his movements with the beat of a hand-held drum

Turkish Wrestler (4 of 4)
A Turkish wrestler, Ryza Bey, watches his assistant practising an acrobatic trick handstand on a chair surrounded by dumbells

Clown with a donkey and a dog
A delightful postcard showing a clown with a decorated donkey and dog

Dr Adam Solomon Epstein, the French conjuror
Copy of wood engraving by S. Durand showing Dr Adam Solomon Epstein, the French conjuror, performing before the Imperial Prince, circa 1869. HPG/8/2/1 (xxxiii)

Illustration of a French conjuror and clown with crowd
Coloured illustration of a French conjuror and clown with crowd, circa 1800. HPG/8/2/1 (iv)

Pinkie and the Fairies
A young girl ballet dancer playing the role of the Queen of the Fairies in G F Nortons Christmas play for children, Pinkie and the Fairies, produced at His Majestys Theatre in 1908

Britannia and Eve front cover, February 1954
Front cover of Britannia and Eve featuring an elegant lady in a smart 1950s dress (with typical full skirt and nipped in waist) standing by a table where a game of cards is in progress

Morocco - Storyteller
A Moroccan storyteller entertaining a group of seated children before a large pavilion tent

After Dinner - Uncle Robert holds forth by Van Abbe. Front cover illustration depicting an old uncle entertaining his younger relations by the fireside in what looks to be a very grand room of a

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

Black African dancer - Egypt
A Black African dancer in Egypt wearing a feathered headdress, playing an elaborate harp

The Savage Club Entertainment at the Royal Albert Hall, 1883
Engraving showing members of the Savage Club, dressed as American Indians, entertaining their fellow club members at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1883

Party of Cossacks entering Kadikol, Crimean War, 1856
Engraving of a small group of Russian troops on horseback, leaving the Crimea at the cessation of the Crimean War, 1856. Despite defeat by the allied forces of the Turks

America. An Artists Notes in California. Evening in a Logge
Interior of a Loggers cabin where 5 men are entertaining themselves with singing and dancing to an accordian

American Indians. Entertaining the Chief
The Chief of the Passamaquoddy Indians entertaining his English guests by telling them tales of his tribes history in a wooded camp on the shore of Lake Utopia

Scene in a photographers studio, example of portrait making
Portraiture in the early twentieth century. A photographer entertaining his subject while his assistants capture her photograph

Entertaining at Home
A scene in a middle class home where the lady of the house entertains a visitor with a hand-picked selection of books to read while she works at her embroidery

Entertaining with Tea
A lady of the house entertains a female visitor in her parlour with afternoon tea and polite conversation

Action Front
Stage performer entertaining the troops during World War II

Racial / Swedish Cottage
Scene in a Swedish cottage: entertaining a British visitor during the Crimean War

Festival Acrobats 1951
Acrobats at the Lakeside Stage, entertaining visitors to Battersea Festival Pleasure Gardens during the Festival of Britain celebrations

Hester L Stanhope / Saloon
LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE Traveller to Asia, where she settled - seen here entertaining a visitor in her saloon

Paris Showirls / 1902
Paris showgirls on stage entertaining an audience

Elephant & Children
A man rides an elephant, entertaining children at Chessington Zoo

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