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Cartoon, Studies in Leakage, or how the great secret of the Conference was given away. Showing how news of a Buckingham Palace Conference on Irish Home Rule was leaked to the press. Date: July 1914
Advert for Pianola Piano 1914The ever-seasonable Pianola Piano. Pre-programmed music recorded on a roll. 1914
Man and woman with radio equipmentA man and a woman sit with radio equipment, including earphones, clearly enjoying what they are hearing
Listening to the guns of deliverance in invaded France 1916Stricken populations of invaded France, hiding behind bushes and a fallen wall, a frightened family listening to the guns and whirr of the aeroplanes, coming nearer every day. 1916
Amateur wireless hobbyistsTwo amateur wireless hobbyists listening on their headphones
A Christmas Story, by C. Rebel StantonA 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
Evelyn Laye listening to music in 1923Evelyn Laye (1900 - 1996), English theatre and musical film actress, listening to music with headphones. Here in a title role in " Merry Widow" at Daly s. Date: 1923
Gramophone GirlsThree girls (nurses or shop girls?) in matching hats, listening to the latest 78s on their gramophone on a pebbly beach. Date: early 1930s
Pretty French girl putting a shell to her ear to hear the sounds of the sea. Date: 1943
Library of Congress Mural - Miltons ComusWashington DC, USA - Mural - Poetry Series by Henry Oliver Walker (1843-1929). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Miltons Comus. Listening to the ladys song. Date: 1920
Orators Corner (Speakers Corner) - Hyde Park, London Date: circa 1940
Young Egyptian woman holding an amphoraAn extremely odd artistic photographic postcard showing a young Egyptian woman holding an amphora close to her naked breast
A V2 on display in Trafalgar SquareA V-2 on display in Trafalger Square with a crowd listening to a speech by Clement Atlee at the beginning of Thanksgiving Saving Week. 15 September 1945. Date: 1945
Miniature n 2 of the Breviculum, reduced version" Miniature n 2 of the " Breviculum", reduced version of Ramon Llulls works made by Tom᳠ Le My賩 er
NEBRIJA, Antonio Martinez de Cala, called Antonio" NEBRIJA, Antonio Martinez de Cala, called Antonio de (1441-1522). Spanish humanist and grammarian. " Gramᴩ ca Latina" (Latin Grammar), work written by Juan de Z
Crowds listening to a broadcast of the abdication speechCrowds listening to radios installed by His Masters Voice outside their offices in Clerkenwell in December 1936 for King Edward VIIIs abdication speech. Date: 01/12/1936
A bird, possibly crow or raven, facing left, standing among leaves with head cocked as though looking closely or listening. Date between 1830 and 1850
Listening to the cricket on the veranda. Print shows a woman sitting on a veranda listening to a cricket in a cage. Date between 1768 and 1770
Courtesan and her attendant listening to a lark. Print shows a courtesan and her attendant or an apprentice listening to the song of a lark that is flying above them. Date between 1772 and 1774
Tick--tick--tickle!. Date c1873
Listening to the birds
Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton pickers child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds
Montenegrin soldiers singing warsongsMontenegrin soldiers singing war songs outdoors, by the light of the moon
Music shop, Rentzes, Landskrona Sweden, 1959 Date: 1959
Street music: Organ grinder, 1872A Civil War veteran turns his hand to organ grinding in New York, 1872. Date: 1872
Your silence is hard to bearA bear listening to the bottom of the candlestick holder of the telephone, while the receiver is on the floor 1928
Woman wearing telephonic fancy dressA woman wearing telephonic fancy dress. The telephone is balanced on her head, and her closely-fitting dress is made up of draped telephone cables. Date: circa 1895
Piano GirlsFour young ladies listening to a piano recital. Date: 1930s
Dog Listening to RadioA dog with its feet up, listening to a radio on some headphones while reading a newspaper. Date: early 1930s
Street music: Flemish hurdy gurdy playerFlemish street scene showing a hurdy gurdy player performing for some peasants. Date: 17th century
Street music: hurdy gurdy playerA hurdy gurdy player performing for three poor boys in the street
Jack Sparrow listening to Jennies warningJack Sparrow sitting on an ivy branch, listening to Jennies warning about the cat. Date: 1937
Street music: 17th century hurdy gurdy playerStreet scene showing a blind hurdy gurdy player performing in 17th century Holland. Date: 17th century
Intellectual child cynic by David WilsonHumorous cartoon showing a small, rather grown-up and intellectual boy lying on his bed reading while the radio is on and saying to his mother, There goes that Childrens Hour
American Explorer programYoung men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America
Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913
Jazz music while you dine, 1929A couple listen to jazz over a rather fraught dinner. The dog, cat and pet bird screech while the music blares out of the gramophone. Date: 1929
American Scouts listening to the radioFive American Boy Scouts sit together listening to the radio, while one reads a magazine. An elderly lady sits in the corner of the room. 1942
Listening to the Banned by KippaHumorous illustration by Kippa featuring a group seated ready for after dinner evening entertainment, only to be shocked by a young woman reading aloud from a scandalous novel
Italian Pifferari, 1850Roman piffarari perform by a wayside shine, 1850. Date: 1850
President Wilson addressing Congress in April 1917President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) addressing the American Congress to recommend entering the war on the side of the Allies. Four days later the USA declared war on Germany
Listening to royal wedding ceremony broadcast, 1947Crowds lining the processional route for the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947
Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favouriteMr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892
Piper in Brittany 1905A blind piper plays on the street, with his hat hanging from his arm for coins. Date: 1905
Lady on the PhoneLady Listening on Phone Date: 1925
Mother & Children C1875Mother sits on a window seat and reads a story to her three children. Date: circa 1875
At a Book ExhibitionA group of anonymous people whose only claim to fame is that they were photographed by Henry Grant at some kind of book exhibition; they seem to be listening to someone... Date: 1950s
Listening TheatrephoneLadies listening to the Theatrephone, piping in music from concert halls, drama from theatres, singing from opera houses... Date: 1892