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Rue Pouchet, Avenue de Clichy, Paris, FranceRue Pouchet, off the Avenue de Clichy, 17th arrondissement, Paris, France, with a large group of people gathered for the photograph. Date: circa 1900s
The game of Pall Mall
Boy with a hoop studying a daffodil. Artist: Alan Wright Date: circa 1910
Norwich Thorpe railway station, Norwich, NorfolkA busy scene in front of Norwich Thorpe railway station, Norwich, Norfolk, which opened in 1844. Date: 1845
Cartoon, Mr Holland and the injunction balloonCartoon, Don t let that injunction balloon stop you, Mr Holland - a comment on the attempt by the Duke of Bedford (freeholder) to stop the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Quarriers Homes - Torr Aluinn and Hoop House, DunoonTorr Aluinn and Hoop House, Dunoon, used as holiday homes for children from the Quarriers Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. Date: circa 1920
Party Invitation Card, Three Dogs. 20th century
Men playing kayles or skittles, 14th centuryMedieval kayles or skittles. Game played with ball, stick, hoop and target (top), men playing kayles or skittles with stick and six pins (middle)
Medieval tumbler jumping through hoopTumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others onto his coat, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Medieval dancers and performersGirl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, 13th century, man playing a pipe while dancing on stilts, 13th century (top), tumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others
The fairground game of quoits or hoopla, jeu du lapin, 1815. Satirical print by showing the Duke of Wellington winning Napoleon Bonaparte as the prize
The Duchess of Burgundy playing billiards, 18th centuryLouis XIV returning from a hunt to find the Duchess of Burgundy playing billiards. From an engraving published by Bonnard, 1704
The game of ground billiards, 16th century. Men use clubs to hit balls between hoops, in a mix of billiards, golf and croquet
Villagers playing croquet or clos-porte, 16th centuryVillagers playing croquet or clos-porte with mallets and large balls, 16th century. After a painting by Breughel. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill
Medieval men playing wall tennis, checkers and hoopsMedieval men bat a ball against a board mounted on a wall (wall tennis or pelota?), some play drafts or checkers, others roll hoops and jump through hoops
Children flying a kite and playing with a hoop, 18th centuryChildren flying a kite, rolling hoops, and playing at shepherd and shepherdess, 18th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)
Classical musical instruments: lyres 1, 2, plectrum 3, cithara 4, lute 5, percussion instruments 6, 7, 8, 15, pan pipes 9, crotales 11, tuba 12, flutes 10, 14, 18, 19, triangle 16, cymbals 17
Matthew Skeggs, as Seignor Bumbasto, playingMatthew Skeggs, in the character of Seignor Bumbasto, playing a broomstick instead of a cello with a bow. Skeggs was a publican and performer of musical tricks with the Choice Spirits
Girls skipping in a park, early 19th centuryGirls playing the skipping game of Walking under the Arch, boy playing hoop, while another girl watches. Scene in a Paris park
Sophie Arnould, French soprano in the opera Pyramus and Thisbe, 1771. She is depicted in the famous costume from Act V, a mantua dress with hoop petticoats or panniers decorated with frills
Cooper hammering a metal hoop on a hogshead barrel. On the walls are tools such as saws, axe, spoke-shave, stock and bit, adze and auger
French childrens fashions, 1839. The boy holds a hoop and stick and the girl a skipping rope. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs Costumes Historiques de la France
Playtime by Peggy Earnshaw. 1932
Female clowns, Nouveau-Cirque, Paris, FranceFemale clowns at the Nouveau-Cirque, Paris, France. circa 1900
Autumn Day by Muriel Dawson. 1940
The Ladies Opportunity, by E. T. Wattson and Carlo MinasiPromotional music sheet for The Ladies Opportunity - Song for Leap Year - song of 1860 by E. T. Wattson and Carlo Minasi. Dedicated to the Young Ladies of England
Crinoline by Hugo VampPromotional music sheet for Crinoline by Hugo Vamp, sung by Sam Cowell, circa 1850s. The image shows a lady modelling an enormous crinoline skirt which had just come into fashion
The Crinoline Varsoviana by Royloff & Schottische by FowlerPromotional music sheet for The Crinoline Varsoviana by E. Reyloff and Schottische by J. A. Fowler. Partly coloured version of a previous version of the same sheet showing a lady modelling an
Cartoons, Gymnastics for Ladies. 1870
Infant feeding and management, 1925Front cover from a manual on infant feeding and management, produced by Allen and Hanbury s. Date: 1925
Victorian Scrap, parrot on a hoop perchVictorian Scrap, pink and green parrot on a hoop perch. circa 1890s
Music cover, Young England Quadrille, by Wilhelm Keller. circa 1850
Young child posing in a sailors outfit holding a hoop - A Little Jack Tar - We All LoveYoung child posing in a sailors outfit holding a hoop - A Little Jack Tar - " We All Love Jack". Date: 1905
Girls with Rolling Hoop Date: 1892
GIRLS KNITTED JACKETFar too stylish for a little girl is this hand-knitted jacket with patterned yoke & cuffs, collar & lapels & patterned patch pockets with button detailing. Date: 1930s
Medieval leaping through hoopMedieval game where two people hold a hoop and third man jumps through, if the person got caught inside, the music would be stop. Date: 13th century
CHILDREN WITH THEIR TOYSA group of children with their toys: a doll, a wooden hoop and a skipping rope. Date: 1930s
MOTHER / 2 CHILDREN 1914Mother goes for a walk with her son and daughter on an autumn day: the boy plays with his hoop and stick. Date: 1914
Greensmiths Derby Dog BiscuitsCircus dogs advertising Greensmiths Derby dog biscuits. Date: circa 1890
GIRLS SKIPPING IN PARKFrench girls skipping in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris Date: 1820s
PARIS / TUILERIES C1860Tuileries Gardens and Palace Date: circa 1860
TWO GERMAN GIRLS 19CTwo German girls in sailor hats stand, one with her doll, her sister with her hoop Date: late 19th century
CHILDREN AT A PUMPTwo children fetch water from a pump - note the ingenious use of a hoop Date: late 19th century
TOYS / HOOPS / C19THThe runaway hoop Date: late 19th century
WASHING DAY / MOTHER / CHILDWashing Day Date: 1899
Costume - Children 1880Boy: knickerbocker, jacket, sailor hat, red socks, heeled boots. Girls: lace dress, yoke bodice, pink sash on hips; kilted skirt, jacket bodies & tie-back skirts. Date: 1880
RABBITS & GOOSE FOR SALE RABBITS & GOOSE FOR SALERabbits O! A street trader advertises his stock of rabbits and a goose. Date: circa 1815
TOYS / HOOP / 1870A boy, out walking with mama and his sisters, bowls his hoop along a country lane Date: circa 1870