Masks Collection (page 3)

Chinese toy seller and boy riding a pasteboard
Chinese itinerant toy seller and boy riding a pasteboard horse, Qing Dynasty. The toy man plays a gong and his basket includes toy soldiers, bow and arrow, masks, feathers, etc

Depiction of the Trojan Horse
Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city. Two rows of bizarrely dressed people and others wearing dog masks pull the horse with ropes

Masks and music
Woodcut of two theatrical masks and musical instruments

Orioles Junior Football Team, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Date: 1906-1907

British troops in gas masks - Uprising in Nicosia
British troops armed with batons and wearing gas masks, standing by to quell disturbances by Greek Cypriots in Nicosia, Cyprus during rioting in Nicosia - late October 1955. 1955

Modern Sirens. 1870

Bazaar in Peking (Beijing), China, East Asia, with masks on display. Date: 1922

John Henderson, Shakespearean actor
John Henderson (1747-1785), Shakespearean actor. late 18th century

Edison Snout, protection from industrial dust
The Edison Snout, invented by Thomas Edison as a protection from industrial dust in the production of fine steel from low-grade ore. late 19th century

Handling Idris bottles wearing gauze masks
Women workers handling Idris bottles wearing gauze masks to protect their faces in case of breakage. circa 1900

Severe low-lying fog crisis over the capital of London, which afflicted London between the 1870s and the mid-1890s. Date: 1882

Victims of an alleged British gas attack are treated by German medics. Date: 1915

Nurses in Hospital Date: 1944

Hospital Theatre, Lagos
A hospital operating theatre in Lagos, patient on operating table with surgical team an observers standing around table in gowns and masks. Date: circa 1930

British soldiers trying on captured German headgear 1916
British soldiers of the Northumberland Fusiliers trying on German helmets and gas-masks following the battle of St. Eloi. Date: 1916

THEATRICAL COSTUMES / C18
The Theatrical candidates 18th century Actors and Actresses Date: circa 1770

BOY PLAYS IN MASK C1870
A boy in a grotesque mask frightens his little sister Date: circa 1870

THEATRE / CLASSICAL / GREEK
Masks worn by stage performers

Masked carnival couple in Venice, Italy
A masked carnival couple in Venice, Italy. Date: 18th century

Ostia, Rome, Italy - Theatrical Masks. Date: circa 1930s

Judging a Fancy Dress Competition - Huntingdon
Judging a Fancy Dress Competition at a Summer Festival Fair Parade Pageant at Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. The two (possible winners) are a pair of mice (with added hand-drawn tails!)

Papua New Guinea - Elema people - Eharo Masks
Elema people (of the Papuan Gulf in southeast New Guinea) practicing an elaborate cycle of masked rituals. These monumental Eharo masks were created primarily for amusement

Man in uniform and gas mask, WW2
Man in uniform, tin helmet and gas mask, posing in a garden, probably during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

People wearing Venice Carnival Costumes, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Woman wearing Venice Carnival Costume
Woman wearing costume at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Venice Carnival Jester Costume
Person wearing jester costume at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Gas helmet, WW1
A fearsome-looking gas helmet. An example of a gas mask issued to British soldiers during the First World War. The peculiar projection in front has its termination in the mouth so that the wearer

Two soldiers in flooded trench, Western Front, WW1
Two British soldiers in a flooded communication trench on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: 1917

Six American soldiers caught in gas attack, WW1
Six American soldiers caught in a gas attack on the western front during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Soldier wearing gas mask, 1918
British soldier wearing a gas mask and helmet on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

Greek Theatrical Masks
Masks were worn by the actors in ancient Greek theatre which evolved from the cult of Dionysos : all actors were male, so masks were especially necessary for female roles

Funeral procession, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Chichen Itza - Mayan Ruins, Mexico
Chichen Itza, a world-famous complex of Mayan ruins on Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula. This card shows a small temple known as the La Iglesia (" The Church" )

Illustration to Venetian Air, a poem by Thomas Moore
Illustration to a poem, Venetian Air, by Thomas Moore -- dearest Ninetta... beneath thy mask shrouded, I ll know thee afar. From a publication entitled National Airs (6 volumes, 1818-1827)

Myanmar - Performing zat pwe - Dance and Music
Performing zat pwe the traditional Burmese performance form that combines elements of music, dance, and theatre. Date: circa 1908

Piaroas ceremonial masks. 1960. Venezuela
Piaroas ceremonial masks: Spirit of the Forest (Redyo), monkey and Peccary mask. 1960. Venezuela. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Temple of Ramses III. Relief depicting fencing fight with sticks. The fighters are wearing protective masks. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Native American costume, medicine men
Native American Indian, three medicine men, two with masks and masquerade dresses, and one man dressed as a bird. When men die

Air stewardess demonstrating oxygen mask on board a passenger plane. Date: circa 1970s

ITALY. Pompeii. House of Casca Longus. Actors wearing masks in a theatrical scene. 1st century A.D. Roman art. Early Empire. Fresco

Man wearing Venice Carnival Jester Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Person wearing Venice Carnival Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Couple wearing Venice Carnival Costumes, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Venice Carnival Costumes
People wearing costumes at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Florence, Italy, a charitable institution dating back to the Middle Ages. Seen here transporting a sick man. Masks are worn to preserve anonymity

Gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops, Volhynia, WW1
A gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops of the Landwehr Reserve Batallion at Volhynia (Wolhynien) on the eastern front in north-west Ukraine during the First World War. Date: 14 October 1916

Scottish soldiers in their gas masks, Western Front, WW1
Four soldiers of the 2nd Batallion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions, Bois Grenier Sector

Wedding Gas Mask
A bridesmaid has a novel wedding gas mask container decorated with silver paper at a wedding in Sidcup in Kent during World War II in 1939

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