Play Collection (page 98)

The Heathen and the Christian - Play
The Heathen and the Christian - promotional postcard for this play - performed at The Grand Theatre Southampton between 1908-1909

Good Baby -- little girl washing doll
Good Baby -- a little girl washing her doll. Date: early 20th century

Greetings card Date: circa 1925

What Every Woman Knows by Nerman
Einar Nermans (1888-1983) artistic and vibrant depiction of the Play What Every Woman Knows - at The Apollo Theatre, London (from left to right) Mr Henry Vibart as Alec Wilye

H Miller. In & out & round about
In and Out and Round About. Children playing in a crocodile around an arcade with columns. 20th century

Granpop Makes Whoopee for the Royal Wedding
Lawson Woods own tribute to the 1934 royal wedding between Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece, showing his orang utan character

H Miller. For shes a grand lady
For shes a grand lady -- thats very clear. Children playing a game in a garden. 20th century

Dollies Drive -- girl takes doll for a ride
Dollies Drive -- a little girl takes her doll for a ride in a wheelbarrow. 19th century

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

Prince Andrew and Prince Edward
Prince Andrew (Duke of York) aged six and Prince Edward (Earl of Wessex) aged two, playing in a tree

Air Scouts climbing on plane with Lord Olivier
Air Scouts climbing on a Fairey Albacore plane with Lieutenant/Sir Laurence Olivier. 1940s

Queen Elizabeth IIs children on a see-saw, 1957
While the Queen looks on, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, rocks a see-saw for Prince Charles and Princess Anne during their visit to the farm and saw mill on the Balmoral Castle Estate in Scotland

Music at home - round the piano, c. 1835
A family group gather round the piano to sing and play. C.1835

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

The Queen and Prince Philip play with their children
The Duke of Edinburgh pushes the young Duke of Cornwall and Princess Anne on a swing in the grounds of the royal residence at Balmoral. The Queen looks on with their dog, Candy. Date: 1955

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

Music at home - 17th century musical gathering
A trio of musicians sing and play together, whilst a fourth listens in at the door. A seated man plays the viol de gamba, while two others sing along. Date: Early 1600s

Crowded beach at New Brighton, Merseyside
A crowded beach at New Brighton, Wallasey, Merseyside, with the Tower Ballroom and a childrens fairground ride in the background. circa 1940s

Air Scouts with a kite
Three Air Scouts stand holding a large kite between them. circa 1950s

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

Scouts playing dodgeball
Beaver/Cub Scouts playing a game of dodgeball in a gymnasium. 1970s

The Queen and Prince Philip play with their children, ponies
Prince Charles leading his pony William to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Anne hold Greensleeves, patted by the Duke of Edinburgh, at Balmoral. 1955

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

American and Scottish Scouts
An American and a Scottish Scout play the age old game of crack the other fellows knuckles, at the Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico

Lady Precious Stream theatre production
Clifford Bartlett as Hsieh Ping-Kuei and Carol Coombe as Lady Precious Stream, in the traditional Chinese play, Lady Precious Stream, by S. I. Hsiung. Date: 1935

American Scouts playing with cars
Three American boy scouts and two leaders stand and watch one of them operates a toy car racetrack. circa 1980s

London parks as substitutes for the seaside: Bishops Park
School children on holiday at the lake in Bishops Park in Fulham, London. Date: 1923

H Miller. Skipping & tripping
Skipping and tripping -- children playing. 20th century

ELH. Girls & boys come out to play
Girls & boys come out to play, the moon is shining bright as day... 20th century

Poster, Join the Thrift Column (a play on words -- not the Fifth Column!). Advertising the Post Office Savings Bank. Showing a long queue of people waiting to open their accounts. 20th century

Heigho! -- children swinging on a gate
Heigho, Heigho! Here we go, swinging to and fro! -- three children swinging on a gate. 19th century

H Miller. Ring-a-ring-a-roses
Ring a Ring a Roses -- children playing in a field. 20th century

Prince Philip performing in a Nativity play at Gordonstoun
Prince Philip of Greece, later Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921), pictured playing one of the three kings in the Oberufer nativity play, while at Gordonstoun school in 1938

H Miller. Battledore & shuttlecock
Children playing battledore and shuttlecock in a field. 20th century

H Miller. Hide & seek 2
Children playing Hide and Seek in a formal garden. 20th century

See saw Marjory Daw, Johnny shall have a new Master. 20th century

Two children on a seesaw. 20th century

Two children with a large snowball. 19th century

J Hassall. See saw Margery Daw
See Saw Margery Daw, Johnnie shall have a new master, Johnnie shall have but a penny a day, because he can t work any faster. 20th century

Humorous Card - Fleas & the Bedpan
Silly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption: SOCIETY GOSSIP - this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting

Poster design, I Killed The Count
Poster design for a theatre production by the Station Repertory Company, entitled I Killed The Count, showing at the Station Theatre. A desperate-looking man points a gun at the viewer

Dogs and Ladder
An adult dog stands on its hindlegs, while with its forelegs it holds up a ladder on which its puppies can play. Date: 1890s

Children and Dogs
Two children play with a spaniel puppy and its mother. early 19th century

Dogs Playing in the Garden
Two puppies play in a garden. circa 1912

Sulky Girl C1900
A little girl leans against a wall and sulks - perhaps she has no-one to play with... Date: circa 1900

Flats in Birmingham
A block of flats on a council estate in Birmingham with a childrens play area in the foreground Date: 1968

Children with Jigsaw
A girl and a boy play with a giant jigsaw; there is a large rocking horse behind them. Date: circa 1960

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