Play Collection (#89)

Japanese Acting Mask
The rather frightening mask and costume worn by Japanese actor KUBUKI in the role of a loner in a Japanese play. Date: 28 April 1933

Daudet Photo
ALPHONSE DAUDET French writer, photographed with his daughter Edmee while his sons play tennis in their garden at Champrosay, a Paris suburb, in 1890. Date: 1840 - 1897

Ziethen Statue
Sightseers in Berlin admire the statue of Prussian military commander HANS JOACHIM VON ZIETHEN while dogs play in the foreground. Date: 1699 - 1786

Siddons as Cleone
SARAH SIDDONS actress as Cleone in an unidentified play Date: 1755 - 1831

Sheridan as Oedipus
THOMAS SHERIDAN actor in the role of Oedipus, in the play of that name by Sophocles : he was the father of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Date: 1719 - 1788

Kemble as Abelard
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE actor as Abelard, in a play by an unnamed playwright. Date: 1757 - 1823

Kemble as Charles I
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE actor as Charles I, a play by an unnamed dramatist : depicted at his trial. Date: 1757 - 1823

Kemble as Cato - 2
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE the great classical actor as Cato in Addisons play of that name. Date: 1757 - 1823

John Philip Kemble, actor
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE actor as Shakespeares Richard III : I am in, so far in blood... Date: 1757 - 1823

Children Playing Cards
A group of children play cards in the street. Date: late 1960s

Kemble as Cato
JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE the great classical actor as Cato in Addisons play of that name. Date: 1757 - 1823

Sir Henry Newbolt
SIR HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT author of Drakes drum, The fighting Temeraire, and that one which ends Play up, play up, and play the game ! Date: 1862 - 1938

Charles Macklin, Actor 4
CHARLES MACKLIN Irish actor and writer as Macbeth in the Scottish play, act two scene three. Date: 1697? - 1797

Phil. Chr. Konigsmark
PHILIP CHRISTOPH KONIGSMARK Swedish soldier, lover of Sophia Dorothea (wife of George I) - a scene from a play Count Konigsmark based on the scandalous story. Date: 1665 - 1694

Toy Lion & Elephant
A toy elephant and lion, mascots, made from wire and wool, confronting one another. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Lifeguard soap -- little girl and adult female models posing (Sandra Palmer and Geraldine Hill). 1959

Advertisement for Kelloggs breakfast cereals (Sugar Frosted Flakes) -- three child models (Adrienne Poster and two others). 1959

Japanese Geisha Girls playing a game of flower cards Date: 1904

Two Japanese Geisha girls playing crokinole
Two Japanese Geisha girl playing a game of crokinole (a cirular variant of shove ha penny). Date: circa 1917

WW2 - British Serviceman arm-in-arm with his ATS Girl
WW2 - W.A.T.S. the use of worrying? - A British soldier and his ladyfriend, who is part of the Auxiliary Territorial Service for Women (ATS). Date: circa 1940

Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional Koto
Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional 13-stringed Koto. Date: circa 1907

Japan - Three Geisha Girls playing traditional instruments - two on drums and one playing the Shamisen. Date: circa 1904

Japan - Geisha girls playing Go
Three Japanese Geisha girls in Japan, playing the popular boardgame Go in their beautiful Kimonos, while enjoying tea. Date: circa 1900

Japanese - Geisha Girls - Studio Photograph
Japanese - Geisha Girl about to pat back a soft ball - Studio Photograph Date: circa 1906

The Muse of Music and Pilgrimage Play Cross - Hollywood Bowl, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

WW2 - Home Front - Two boys playing on a see saw
WW2 - Home Front, November 1940 - Two boys playing on a see saw - happy and content and not afraid of the war raging around them

Spoof postcard on the Colchester Native Oyster Beds ! Date: circa 1910s

O-Hana-San provides music for her friend O-koto-san
Japanese woman O-Hana-San provides music for her friend O-koto-san with a Shamisen Date: circa 1910

Very un-stuck-up woman, stuck-up with sticking plasters
" Gracious me. But, ain t you the stuck up thing!" Very un-stuck-up American woman, stuck-up with sticking plasters Date: 1908

Arthur James Balfour instructed by 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The Story of the Pushful One. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - Prime Minister (1902-05) instructed by Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

Belly Cold - Chinese man causes linguistic confusion
Chinese man causes linguistic confusion... " Belly cold today, miss!" " Well - why don t you tuck your shirt in?" Date: circa 1940

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Sandcastle with lack of barbed wire
Winston Churchill: " This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm!". Lady in deckchair watching her son build a sandcastle in a garden sandpit: " There

South Africa - Sotho Boys play cards for arm bangles. The Sotho people (Basotho or Basuto) are a Bantu ethnic group whose ancestors have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century

South Africa - European man and local boy play a game of Ayo
South Africa - European man (wearing a traditional local cape) and local boy play a game of Ayo, a traditional game common in many forms (and various names!) across the African continent

Girls having fun in the park playing with hoops and dolls
Young French Girls having fun in the park playing with hoops and dolls Date: circa 1907

Jolly lady and her bouncy pet dog
A jolly lady and her bouncy pet dog having some laughs and quite a few japes outside what appears to be a temporary military building (a Nissen hut, barracks or mess hall)

Its a long way to Tipperary - A Mouse heads up a ladys leg, who is standing on a chair in obvious terror! Date: circa 1915

Sarah Bernhardt in Le Passant - playing a Lute
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in Le Passant (play by Coppee) - playing a Lute. Date: circa 1895

Unusual woman playing a small stringed instrument
Slightly unusual postcard showing a woman with long dark flowing locks strumming away at a small lute. A slightly deranged gaze to boot... Date: 1907

Comic Postcard - Slops removed and served
Comic Postcard - A Housemaid removes and empties the slops from a bedroom chamber pot (potty), whilst at the same time a (hopefully different type of)

Delightful Edwardian Birthday Postcard - Mr Punch
An absolutely delightful Edwardian Birthday Postcard - featuring a young girl on stage with Mr Punch and Mrs Punch (holding the baby)

Valentines Day postcard - Football Match - To My Love
To My Love. A spectacularly unusual subject for this Valentines Day Card sent from a man to his lady love... a scene of a football match! Sent on 14th February 1914 Date: 1907

Piccadilly Circus - WW2
Piccadilly Circus, London - WW2 - Pedestrians military and civil, including an American GI and his gal. Date: circa 1942

Sarah Bernhardt as Zoraya in La Sorciere
French Actress Sarah Bernhardt as Zoraya in the stage play La Sorciere ( The Witch ) - Act 3. Written by Victorian Sardou and produced by Bernhadt herself. Date: 1903

Playbill postcard for Alfs Button
The most popular manifestation of Orientalism after WWI seems to have been Alfs Button. W.A Darlingtons novel appeared in1920, was filmed (silent movie) the same year

East African Jewish Bedouin Musician in Jerusalem, Israel. Playing a masenqo, a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Date: circa 1920s

Suicide - the last thng he did
" So Poor Old Mike committed suicide." " Yes." " That was the LAST thing I thought he d do." " Which it were, Sorr." Date: 1894

Young children on the street with the youngest in a pram
Carriage Folk? Certainly not a fancy carriage in sight for these three! Date: 1900

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