Game Collection (#67)

Game / Stella / Petits Feux
Les Petits Feux: a group of little boys line up to take their turn jumping over a fire, just to prove how brave they are

Game / Cards / Children 1883
Five girls play cards at a table

Game / Daisy Chains 1889
Two little girls make daisy chains

Game / Rafting on Pond
Three children and their two dolls go rafting on a pond

Game / Mary Gone A-Milking
A group of girls play Marys Gone A-Milking in a field

Game / Puss in Corner 1889
A group of girls play Puss in the Corner

Game / Queen Anne & Maids
A group of children play Queen Anne and Her Maids in a garden

Game / Touch Wood 1889
A group of children play Touch Wood, with the help of some trees and a wooden fence

Game / Tom Tiddler 1889
A group of children play Tom Tiddlers Ground in a garden

Game / Playing Mothers
Two little girls play at mothers, wheeling their dolls in their prams through the park

Playing Shops
Children playing shop under a large parasol

Game / Playing Soldiers
Japanese boys playing soldiers during the China-Japan War

Game / Winter / Snowman 1870
A group of happy children dance around the snowman they have made

Game / Winter / Snowman 19C
Six children admire the snowman they ve made

Game / Winter / Snowman 1890
Two children (and their dog) thoughtfully provide their snowman with a parasol to stop the sun melting him

Brother and sister have built a snowman
Our Snow Man - a brother and sister smile with a sense of achievement, having built a snowman

The Game of Chance / 1900
The game of chance, taken from a satire on the revolutionary period

Gentlemen Gambling C1830
Two gentlemen enjoy a game of cards in their club, with a wager on the outcome

C16th French O / Door Game
Egg rolling & various other games

C16th French Ball Games
Old French ball games Fossette & Le jeu de Croce, a kind of hockey game Date: Sixteenth century

Climbing the Pole / Fair
Climbing the pole. This game originated from an idea by M. Franck, a doctor who decided that humans should re-learn such skills previously used to climb trees & forage for food

London Gamblers / Dore
Men and women of dubious character watch a card game in a dimly lit interior

French Parlour Game / C19
Le Chevalier Gentil, a French parlour game involving repeated phrases

FRENCH BARREL GAME
Le Tonneau (barrel) players aim to get their pieces through the hole(s)

Pisa Bridge Game / C18Th
PISA : the long-ago defeat of the Saracens is celebrated by two groups of warriors who battle it out on a bridge over the Arno

West African Game: Warry
A crowd gathers to watch two people play the West African game of wharri

Game / Swingball 1927
A man and a woman play swingball in the garden

Game / Roller Wheel / 1927
Le Sourire introduces the new American sport of roller wheel

Cards from Chinese Game
Various cards from a Chinese game, featuring a fish and a stiltwalker amongst other designs

Game of Bezique
A boxed set of the Royal game of Bezique

Card House / E Scannell
Two children build a card house

Surburban Whist-Drive
Men and women enjoying a very sociable game of cards at a public whist drive, the new craze in suburbia

Card Players in China
Ladies of a mandarins family playing cards; two children are looked after by a servant

14Thc Card-Playing
A royal party playing a game of cards in medieval times

PATIENCE BOOK COVER
Cover of The Illustrated Book of Patience Games by Professor Hoffmann

Left out of Card Game
The odd one out: a young woman is left out of the card game played by three men and an older lady

A Card Game / Le Rire
Four smartly-dressed men and women playing a hand of cards after dinner; one of the ladies wears a fur stole, while another watches through a lorgnette

Game of Marbles
Children playing a game of marbles

Diabolo Game in Garden
Games of diabolo taking place in the garden of a grand country house

Loto Game C18
Children play loto, a form of bingo

Game / Soap Bubbles / 1889
A mother and her daughter blow soap bubbles

Sport / Gryllo
A strange game, Gryllo, based on double-wicket cricket, but played with lawn tennis racquets instead of bats. A net at each end of the pitch takes the place of the stumps!

Real Tennis Game 1658
The ball is played against a side wall

J. II Plays Real Tennis
James, duke of York, and later James II, plays a game

Pall Mall Game C18
Gentleman enjoy a game of pall mall, a French hybrid of golf and croquet played on a large strip of land; the idea is to hit a ball through a raised hoop

Golf at St Andrews 1889
Beautifully attired ladies enjoy a game at St Andrews, Scotland; a lady putts out on the fourteenth hole (note the double green that is shared with the fourth hole)

Bandy-Ball or Golf?
Two men play a game of bandy- ball, a primitive form of golf

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