Perform Collection (page 4)

Sonato de Otono (Song of Autumn)
Woman in an elaborate stage costume preparing to perform a Song of Autumn. Date: 1921

Liverpool Cottage Homes - Girls drill
Girls perform a playground drill with sticks at the Liverpool Vestrys Cottage Homes, Olive Mount, Wavertree. The homes were erected in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1906

Annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes
Scene from the annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes in The Royal Albert Hall. Here young girls perform physical exercise in the Indian Club Drill display. An exhibition of the good work of Dr

Chinese Balloon Trick
A group of children watch a street entertainer perform a trick involving bottles and balloons! Date: 1930s

Albertina Vitak and Chester Hale - Dancers
Albertina Vitak (1907-?) and Chester Hale (1899-?) - Dancers, performing in The Music Box Revue written by Irving Berlin, performed at the Palace Theatre Date: 1923

Paris Exhibition - Great Indian Exhibition (1 / 3)
People from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea) at the Grande Exposition Indienne held in Paris in 1902

American Explorer program
Young 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

Music at home - a trio of musicians
Three ladies play musical instruments together ina domestic setting. Date: 1886

Music at home - harmony before matrimony
Harmony before matrimony, by James Gillray. A couple perform a duet de l amour in a Georgian interior, whilst two cats play on the sheet music on the floor. Date: 1805

Italian Pifferari, 1850
Roman piffarari perform by a wayside shine, 1850. Date: 1850

German street band, 1870
Out of time and out of place: a German band perform on Regent Street, London. Traffic whizzes past as two policemen close in... Date: 1870

Music at home - a lady plays the piano
" Dulce let her fingers stray for a few moments aimlessly over the keys." Date: 1891

Grenadier Guards perform
The musical festival at Boston: the band of the grenadier guards playing The Star Spangled Banner. Date: 1872

Music at home - As the old sing, so the young pipe
A wealthy family group make music together-an old lady in spectacles sings from her large woven chair, a woman holds a child playing a flute

Henry Hall and the BBC Dance orchestra, 1935. Date: 1935

Joe Loss and his jazz band, 1936
Joe Loss and his band at the Astoria, 1936. Date: 1936

Cake Walk, Virginia
Three finely dressed black ladies perform the cake walk before an enthusiastic audience at Richmond, Virginia. Date: 1871

Waits in Street
Peaceful night - waits perform in an English town with drum, trombone and other instruments, a policeman as their only audience Date: 1858

Franconis Circus / Lami
Circus riders perform to a full audience at Franconis Circus, Paris. Date: circa 1840

Showgirls 1889
Showgirls dancing the can can circa 1889

Music and dancing in India
A group of people playing music and dancing in India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

The Introduction by Geo. S. Dixon
An actress in a skimpy stage costume and jaunty head dress introduces herself to a theatre audience at the beginning of a show or revue

The Schaffer Troupe perform their Pedestal Act, 1898
Photograph showing the Schaffer troupe, the Hungarian acrobats, performing their pedestal act with seven people and two horses at the Empire Theatre, London, 1898

Shinto priests perform an elaborate dance in offering to a god; the symbol on the drapery is the Imperial Seal of Japan

Procession of Palms
Portuguese Jews perform the Procession of Palms

Pilgrims to Mecca in Ihram Clothing, mid-19th century
Engraving showing the typical garb worn by pilgrims to Mecca in the mid-19th century. Ihram is the intention to perform Hajj or Umrah and show devotion to Allah

Olympic / Publicity 1932
Female athletes perform a routine to publicise the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics

Circassians Dancing
A Circassian pair perform a traditional dance amid a circle of solemn spectators

Burning Incense China
Religious devotees burn incense sticks in a temple which actors perform as Gods in the rear

Submission of Ghent
When the nobles of Ghent are too proud to submit to Philippe le Hardi, their ruler thanks to marriage with Margaret of Flanders, their wives perform the act of submission instead

The Strawberry Trade - pottling
Engraving by Ebenezer Landells showing a rural scene with women pottling strawberries. Pottles were small, basket-like containers which would be carried in great quantities by women from Middlesex

Churchill Cartoon
Churchill, First Sea Lord, depicted as a circus impresario explaining to the audience that Britannia has been taken ill and will not be able to perform

Arab at Prayer
An Arab traveler hobbles his camel while he pauses in his journey to turn towards Mecca and perform his midday prayers

Syringe Ready for Action
A nurse holds up a syringe, ready to perform an injection on her patient - ouch!

St Roch as a Pilgrim
(Rocco, Roque) - He goes as a pilgrim to Rome, where he is infected while caring for plague victims; he recovers and goes on to perform many healing miracles

The Workless man-of -all-work
Illustration of a man reading the paper whilst all the household work is done by machinery. The sketch depicts what was then considered a glimpse into the future

Donkey Serenade
A quartet of donkeys, selected for the note of their bray, perform - though it is unlikely that they could actually read the musical score

Horseback Acrobatics
A couple with Barnum & Baileys circus, perform an impressive feat. He controls two horses, with a foot on eachs back, while she stands balanced on his knee

Roman Triclinium
Informally dressed Romans dining in their triclinium. Musicians perform while a servant makes sure the wine doesn t give out

Veela & Castle Builders
A Veela (a type of nymph/siren) thwarts the efforts of castle-builders until they perform feats in turn

Cake Walking Couple
A black banjo-player and his white partner, both in carnival costume - is this New Orleans ? - perform the cake- walk

Tarantella on Terrace
On a Neapolitan terrace, a group of barefoot dancers perform a lively tarantella, clicking their castanets

Tiffany Glassware
An unbelievably hideous item of Tiffany glassware, designed by Hugo Schnaper, who alone knows what its meant to be, or what function it is intended to perform

Elephants Dancing
Two elephants perform the jungle waltz, accompanied by a friend on the accordeon

Purifying Sulphur
Once the sulphure has been mined, it must be refined before it can be used commercially. Furnaces at Catolica perform this operation on the spot

Village Choir, New Year
Celebrating New Year in an English village : the village choir perform at the Squires house, and are rewarded with a glass of punch

Lake District / Windermere
Lake Windermere, in Englands lake district, is frozen over, offering skaters a vast expanse of ice upon which to perform

The New Curate
The new curate - is appraised by the ladies of the parish : oh, bother his principles, how will he perform on the croquet lawn ?

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