Hoop Collection (page 5)

Basketball at the 1948 London Olympics
In this sparsely-attended basketball match at Harringay Arena, the American team (in white) beat the Swiss team. Date: 1948

Hooping Boy and Pups
A boy with a hoop and three excited puppies. Date: circa 1890

Sulky Girl C1900
A little girl leans against a wall and sulks - perhaps she has no-one to play with... Date: circa 1900

Five Assorted Children
Boy: knickerbocker, jacket, sailor hat, red socks, heeled boots. Girls: lace dress, yoke bodice, pink sash on hips; kilted skirt, jacket bodies & tie-back skirts

Duckpond in Winter
Two little girls and their dog visit a duckpond in winter to feed the ducks. Date: circa 1880

Malby family at leisure in their garden
The Malby family (two children, and a woman in a deckchair) at leisure in their garden at Woodford, Essex

London Life front cover featuring the model Ro
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Hoopee by Muriel Dawson
A happy little girl in a blue coat with mittens holds up a colourful hula hoop

Musical Croquet / W H Robinson
Charming additions to the game of Croquet - bells on the hoops and musical horns on the mallets. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Mother and two daughters of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A mother and her two daughters pose for their photograph. Each girl has a hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. They are from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia

Little girl of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A little girl in a garden or back yard with her hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. She is from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia, now in Czechoslovakia

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge and Girl
Egypt - Cairo - The entrance to the Pont de Ghazirah - a bridge over the Nile at Cairo built by a French Ironworks. When Egypt became British, the two statues of the (very English) lions were added

Women, Girl & Hoop 1877
Cuirasse bodice & tunic with underskirt in pink & grey; gold dress with square neckline & plastron composed of horizontal bands of lace. The girl wears heeled boots

Never Chase a Hoop
Never chase a ball or hoop into the roadway as this youngster is doing

Houp-la
Cartoon from 1893 showing William Gladstone as a circus performer flying through a hoop representing the Home Rule Bill. The Home Rule Bill proposed an Irish Parliament responsible for internal

English Vs USA Netball
An England vs America ladies netball match in progress; one of the English ladies has just shot at the hoop

Floral Evening Gown
Evening gown of gold & silver brocade in a large floral print with full, bishop sleeves & decorative pleated panel which is allowed to flare at the hemline

Embankment Boys
Two boys leaning against the Embankment wall, London

Boy with a Hoop
A boy rolling a hoop along a pavement beside a high wall on a London street

Performing Dogs, Paris
Dogs jump through a hoop at the Paris Hippodrome

Plants / Narcissus / Curtis
Hoop petticoat narcissus NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM With bulb illustrated

Costume / Girl / Franchomme
A girl wears a broad brimmed straw hat, blue sprigged print dress with small bishop sleeves, lace yoke & over- skirt, pink ribbon epaulettes & sash & lace cuffs

Fashions for July 1864
Girl: white dress, magenta Swiss corselet with petal-like basques. Black trimmed purple dress with long pointed scallop edged basques. Fawn coloured mantle with tassels

Playing Kings and Queens
A girl and boy play Kings and Queens -- the boy is all for war, but the girl prefers peace

Plaice / Cries of London
Live plaice or flounders!

Girl with Gloves & Hoop
A young girl ready to bowl her hoop, wrapped up warm in gloves and a very chic hat

Police / Standard Uniform
Two London policeman stand chatting in their standard uniform, while their colleagues ticks off a small boy with a wooden hoop, who has been making mischief

Village Children & Hoop
Five children with a toy hoop standing at the top of a street looking down on Seatoller, Cumberland. The chimneys are smoking in the pretty cottages

Paris / Tuileries 1882
Tuileries Gardens: children playing

Gilrs Skipping in Park
Young girls wear pantalettes & dresses with decorated hemlines, gigot sleeves & bands at the waist. Two of the dresses have square collars

Boy with his Hoop / 1893
A young boy with his hula hoop

TOYS / HOOPS / 1910
A boy with his hoop

Goldins Magic Trick
Horace Goldin suspends Miss Fransiola in mid air on stage at the Palace Theatre and passes a hoop around her body to show there are no hidden supports

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

Monster Organ 1846
Barefoot street children and a girl with her hoop admire the Monster Organ paraded in the streets of London by Lodovico di Modena (Italy), while other buskers can t compete

Charles Lamb / Islington
CHARLES LAMB Elia Cottage, Islington Date: 1775 - 1834

Girls & Hoop / Photo 1890S
Two German girls in identical yoked dresses with a single scallop edged flounce, full sleeves & sash, sailor hats, socks & patent leather shoes with a bar & shoes roses

Children / Arabs Holiday
Two poor street children look at a travel poster and imagine what it would be like to go on a sea trip

Model by Miss Cuthbert
Brimless hat, fox fur stole, tunic dress with low waisted loose fitting bodice & pleated under-skirt. Girl: dress with pleated skirt & cape. Boy: knitted jersey suit with tie

Teaching Dog a New Trick
Little girl is trying to teach her dog to go through the hoop

Through the Hoop
A redoubtable croquet-player ponders a tricky shot - how to get his own ball through the hoop without taking his opponent with him ?

Circus Dogs / Dog Biscuits
Circus dogs advertising Greensmiths Derby dog biscuits

Rabbits & Goose for Sale
Rabbits O! A street trader advertises his stock of rabbits and a goose

Liebig Games - 3
A boy entertains his friends with his skill with the hoop, demonstrating some of the laws of physics such as the power of centrifugal force

GIRL & HER HOOP / 1895
A girl and her hoop

Boys Bullying Cruikshank
BULLYING A schoolboy held under a waterpump by bullying classmates

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