Play Collection (#87)

Pug Peter -- animals playing cricket with an orange
Pug Peter -- There She Goes! Animals playing cricket with an orange. Date: 1905

Gordon Highlanders playing cards, WW1
Gordon Highlanders playing cards in a reserve trench before moving up the line on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton
Girls at play with hoops, skipping ropes and a swing at St Winifreds Industrial School, Wolverhampton. Nuns stand in supervision. Date: Date unknown

Children from Scholfield Home, Wavertree, at Conway
Children from the Scholfield Home, Church Road, Wavertree, Liverpool, play at sea nymphs on the beach on a trip to Conway in North Wales

Sikh Officers playing quoits at Hampton Court Palace, 1902
Sihk officers, in London to form part of the Indian contingent for the Coronation of King Edward VII, passing the time at their quarters at Hampton Court Palace

Vera Poliakoff by Madame Yevonde
Vera Poliakoff (wife of Basil Burton) by Madame Yevonde. Seen here in the role of Mary Norton, Lady-in-Waiting, in Clifford Baxs play, The Rose Without a Thorn, taking place at the Duchess Theatre

Miss Tennyson Jesse by Madame Yevonde
Miss Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (1888-1958) by Madame Yevonde. She was an English criminologist, journalist and author, sometimes using the pen name Wynifried Margaret Tennyson

Our pleasant parlour games! 1928
Children sitting around a table playing cards. Date: 1928

Miss Faith Celli by Madame Yevonde
Miss Faith Celli (Dorothy Faith Standing, 1888-1942), by Madame Yevonde. She was an actress in plays including The Blue Lagoon and the comedy Threads at the St Jamess Theatre, London. 1921

The Round Pond angler in silhouette
A small child with a fishing net amuses himself at the Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, London. Date: 1926

My Skyscraper by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy plays with his building bricks. Date: 1944

Playtime by Muriel Dawson -- a little child kneels on the grass with a ball. Date: 1940

Scenes from a play, Tommy Atkins, at the Lyceum Theatre
Scenes from a play entitled Tommy Atkins, at the Lyceum Theatre, London. It was no doubt put into production to help encourage recruitment in the early days of the First World War

Kitty and Me by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a pink dress plays with her kitten. Date: 1945

Toddler with Noahs Ark, by Muriel Dawson
A toddler sits playing with a Noahs Ark, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1927

Baby in a play pen by Muriel Dawson
A laughing baby sitting in a play pen with a doll, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1928

Two children on a beach by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

Two children playing in a stream by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

Children playing hopscotch, Japan
Children playing hopscotch in the street, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

People playing tennis, India. Date: circa 1890s

Man protesting against playing of football during WW1
Frederick Nicholas Charrington (a member of the brewing family) protesting against the playing of football during the First World War

Actor performing in a play, Merely Mary Ann
An actor named Howard performing in a play by Israel Zangwill entitled Merely Mary Ann (written 1903). It was later adapted into a film (1931). Date: 20th century

Actor playing Elizabethan character in The Road to Yesterday
An unnamed actor playing the role of an Elizabethan character (Sir Johut?) in The Road to Yesterday, a fantasy play by Beulah Marie Dix, later adapted into a silent film

Actor playing The Chairman in a play, Heartsease
An unnamed actor playing the role of The Chairman in a play entitled Heartsease, probably by Edmund Falconer (Edmund O Rourke). Date: early 20th century

Children playing 1895
Three children pretend that they are on a horse and cart, using dining room chairs and a little horse on wheels as transport. Date: 1895

Cherub playing the violin. To My Valentine. Postcard

Royal Navy sailors playing games on deck. August 1916 Date: 1916

Convalescing soldiers and WaCs, Western Front, WW1
Convalescing soldiers and WaCs playing basketball near the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Small boy standing on chaise-longue
Young boy holding a ball, stands on a chaise longue. Date: c. 1910

Pencil sketch of toddler with bucket
Pencil sketch of a toddler filling a bucket with sand. Date: 1920s

Pencil sketch of child on a fence
Pencil sketch of a child walking along the top of a fence. Date: 1920s

Pencil sketch of four children paddling at the seaside. Date: 1920s

Stage production of The Squaw Man
Stage production of a play, The Squaw Man (written 1905), by Edwin Milton Royle, starring William Faversham (1868-1940) as Captain James Wynnegate. Date: early 20th century

Two sprites playing a violin and a flute
A butterfly dances to the music played by two sprites playing a violin and a flute

Illustration of the Shakespeare Play Timon of Athens
Illustration of the Shakespeare Play " Timon of Athens", by S. G. Boxsius. Date: 1913

Children playing on slide
Nursery school children playing on slide in playground and waiting patiently in a queue to ascend slide Date: 1930s

Seaside scene, Saucy Sue, showing a far from saucy woman in masculine-style clothes, sitting on a beach reading a book on Ethics, while children play in the sea in the background. Date: July 1914

Nursery Rhymes -- boy with slate, mice with cheese
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a boy sits doing sums on a slate while other boys play football. Below -- mice eating bread, cheese and an apple. Date: early 20th century

Children in the nursery
Lots of children playing in the nursery, while the Nanny holds the youngest child. Date: circa 1870

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Nursery Rhymes -- Tom the Pipers Son. Tom with his pipe did play with such skill, that those who heard him could never keep still; as soon as he played they began for to dance

Two young boys on an Easter egg hunt
Two brothers carry empty baskets as they begin an Easter egg hunt Date: c. 1920

A football match played by troops during the battle of the A
" Our Happy Tommies" A typical upbeat choice of subject for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Sutcliffes illustration

Three children with tent on a beach
Three children in Red Indian costume standing in front of a tent on a beach

People on ships deck playing a game
People on the deck of a ship, playing a game involving wooden models of racehorses, with a racecourse marked out in white

Childrens Games Through the Ages
This picture shows children at play from the middle ages to 150 years ago. It has lots of differen scenes of children playing different types of games

Little boy playing with his toys
A little boy playing with his toys and riding a hobby horse

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