Perform Collection

Bulgarian Peasants Dance
Bulgarian peasants perform a traditional dance before village elders and interested tourists

Music cover for Two Marionettes Polka, composed by May Ostlere. Two puppets (without strings!) are depicted dancing on a small stage, framed by red and gold curtains

Street Accordionists
Selected from the ranks of Londons street artists, these musicians perform on the kerb for a BBC broadcast

Persian Musicians
A group of Persian musicians play on a variety of instruments. Below dancing girls perform to the music

Tower Circus / Blackpool
Two girls perform tricks while riding a white horse. A clown holds a hoop with a paper surface which one of them has just leapt through

Tightrope Cycling Act
A German husband and wife team perform a dramatic tightrope cycling act

FLAMENCO
Flamenco dancers, singers & guitar perform outside

Paris Masons, 1740
Freemasons in a Masonic Lodge in Paris perform a ritual. A symbol covered banner is laid on the floor while a blindfolded man, an arm & shoulder bared, is led forth

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows Cosford 1982
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks perform the vixen break at Cosford in April 1982 Date: 1982

Complaint by Workhouse Master at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshir
A formal complaint by Richard Brown, master of the Chipping Norton workhouse, against casual ward inmate Charles King who had refused to perform the work demanded of him. Date: 1904

Morris Dance / Musto
MORRIS DANCING: Thaxted, Essex. Villagers gather outside the church on a sunny day to watch a morris dancing team perform to the strains of an accordian

French Street Conjuror
A French street magician with his trestle table set up ready to perform the cup and ball trick and con some punters out of their money Date: circa 1805

Haydn Performs, Hungary
Hayden and companions perform a string quartet at the Esterhazy home, Hungary Date: 1732 - 1809

LCC-LFB Brigade marching band at the Annual Review
The Fire Brigade Band performing at the 1929 Annual Review in Victoria Park, East London. Formed after the First World War

Mediumship / Satirical
THE PLEASURES OF HAT-MOVING To perform this scientific experiment, the experimenters must touch hands for 20 minutes or so

Gloster Meteor T7s perform aerobatics

12th Night / 1864 Perform
Performed in the course of the 1864 Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-on-Avon

Farandole at Aix
LA FARANDOLE The people of Aix-en-Provence perform their traditional dance

Lady Dance with Dog
A lady and her borzoi perform a pas de deux

Flotow Martha Quartet
The delightful spinning quartet from Act Two, as the two posh ladies, disguised as country girls, reveal their inability to perform mundane household tasks

Trombonist 1890S Photo
Who is this unnamed trombonist of Bristol, posing so glumly with his instrument ? Did he perform at parties ? If so, he was doubtless the life and soul of the evening

WW2, Change Of Pilots
A wartime illustration which shows a high octane scene in which two biplanes perform a death defying manouvre, with a man hanging from a wing. Date: circa 1940s

Les Coulisses d'Une Feerie
This illustration depicts a scene in which young ladies are gathered, wearing colourful short dresses, with fairy wings and antennae, ready to perform in the Ballet of the Insects. Date: circa 1901

Performance of Romeo and Juliet, Colombo, Ceylon
Depictions of a performance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by the Singhalese in Colombo, Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka)

Prince Henry and Waldemar of Prussia
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945) with his father, Prince Heinrich (Henry) of Prussia (1862-1929) at Balmoral in the 1890s. Waldemar was the eldest son of Henry and Princess Irene of Hesse

Ethel Beenham, Harry Price's secretary, demonstrates how a skilful medium can perform any number of psychic phenomena even though her hands and feet are tied. Date: 1930s ?

SERVICE RESPIRATOR/WWII
Service respirator: used by members of the Civil Air Raid precautions services, who may have strenuous duties to perform in heavy gas concentrations Date: WWII

RECOGNITION AT AUTOPSY
A surgeon about to perform an autopsy recognises the dead woman lying on the table Date: 1899

AN EARL IS BORN, 1382
The birth of Richard Beauchamp (1382-1439), earl of Warwick, in the manor of Salwarp in the County of Worcester (England) - doctor and servants perform their various tasks Date: 28 January 1382

Entertainers perform for Margate holidaymakers, Kent
Harry Golds Margate Entertainers perform for holidaymakers on Margate sands in Kent. Date: circa 1930s

Muezzin in a minaret performing the call to prayer
Muezzin in a minaret of a mosque performing the call to prayer or adhan. Muezzin pubblico. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient

Cartoon, Little birds who can sing and don t sing must not be surprised if they have to pay fifty pounds sometimes. John Sims Reeves (1821-1900), operatic, oratorio and ballad singer

Decorative plate from Saint-Amand, Normandy, France, 18th century. A man teaching a dog to perform tricks. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Girls Industrial School - Swimming
Girls at an unidentified Industrial School perform an exercise or dance in pairs holding a stick. Date: circa 1924

Girls Industrial School - Dance Exercise
Girls at an unidentified Industrial School perform an exercise or dance in pairs holding a stick. Date: circa 1924

The benediction of Maximilians Body at Capuchin Church
Various nobles stand in attendance as the bishops perform the benediction on the body of Emperor Maximilian, at the Capuchin Church in Vienna

During the winter festivals in Europe paraded the streets and entered houses to dance or play dice in silence. Date: 13th - 16th century

STAGE MAGICIAN
A stage magician about to perform a trick with a top hat and magic wand Date: circa 1915

ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, dressed as American darkies, perform in the streets of London with banjo, violin, tambourine and castanets. Date: circa 1860

COUNTRY DANCING C18TH
Two couples perform astar or hands across movement within a country dance at an English country fair. Date: late 18th Century

BURMESE MUSICIANS 1861
An elaborately equipped sextet perform at a funeral at Rangoon : most of their instruments are percussion, two sets being housed in playpen-like rings. Date: 1861

FASHIONABLE BALL, FRANCE
A private dance in the Chausee dAntin, Paris : four dancers perform the Queue du chat (Cats tail) Date: circa 1821

Cartoon, The Real Cap of Liberty. British Lion: What can THAT cap promise, that my CROWN doesnt perform? Eh, Stoopid? Date: December 1871

Haydn Performs, Hungary
Haydn and companions perform a string quartet at the Esterhazy home, Hungary Date: circa 1780

The Christmas Waits 1848
Town waits, playing their musical instruments while people are standing around listening. From medieval times up to the early 19th century

MAGIC CATS OF CHINA
These magical spirit-cats perform the vital function of keeping away the rats which would otherwise devour the silkworms : the flowers also keep the worms healthy

BELLEROPHON & CHIMERA BELLEROPHON & CHIMERA
One of the tasks he has to perform for Iobates, king of Lycia, is to slay the CHIMERA, which he does with the aid of the winged horse PEGASUS

Guildes at Crystal Palace 1854
A military band perform in the Crystal Palace before a large crowd. Date: 1854

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