Player Collection (page 16)

Christmas Preparations - In Heath Robinsonland
No. 2 - Training a young wait. Blasting a trumpet player with wind and rain so he is prepared for all weathers once he goes Christmas carolling. Date: 1909

Boys playing cricket on a greetings card -- Butter Fingers. A fielder is hit on the nose by a ball he is trying to catch. Date: circa 1890s

Boys playing football on a greetings card -- Well Kicked Fatty. Date: circa 1890s

Boys playing football on a Christmas card -- A Little Collision, or The Bandaged Foot. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a cricket bat, with a batsman running. Date: circa 1890s

Sketch cover - tennis player Eileen Bennett
Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (16 July 1907 ca. 18 August 1979, female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931)

Tatler cover - Helen Wills Moody
HELEN WILLS MOODY (1905-1998) American tennis player and eight times winner of Wimbledon. Nicknamed Little Miss Poker Face. Championed the wearing of the sun visor which she is pictured wearing here

Susi - sitting on a record player turntable. 1950s

Susi - with kitten inside record player
Susi - with a kitten inside an old record player, with the lid coming down. 1950s

Susi - with kitten and broken record. 1950s

Susi - with kitten and record player. 1950s

Accordian player - street musicians, London, England

Mrs Fearnley Whittingstall (Eileen Bennett)
Eileen Bennett Whittingstall (16 July 1907 ca. 18 August 1979, female tennis player from the United Kingdom who won six Grand Slam doubles titles from 1927 to 1931. Date: 1931

Teddy Tinling on the French Riviera
Cuthbert Collingwood " Ted" Tinling (1910-1990) - English tennis player and fashion designer pictured with Miss Ryan

American Wightman Cup Team
Members of the American Wightman Cup Team, from left to right: Josephine Cruickshank, Carolin Babcock, Helen Jacobs, Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey. Date: 1934

Wedding of Mr I. M. B. Stuart and Mis Barbara Millar
The wedding of Irish rugby international Mr I. M. B. Stuart (also a master at Harrow School) and Miss Barbara Ethel Millar, a first-class golfer, at St. Johns Church in St. Johns Wood in April 1931

King, the football-playing stallion
King the football-playing stallion was bought by Essex farmer Bill Foyle from a Midlands slaughter market in 1963 for 35. Bill soon discovered that the seven-year-old enjoyed a game of football

Vietnam - Musicians - Saigon
Vietnam - Musicians - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Two men with their Dan Tranh, a plucked Zither (similar to the Chinese guzheng, the Japanese koto)

China - Two Musicians having a break and a drink. The two instruments in front of them are a Sanxian and a Yuegin (Moon Guitar). Date: circa 1908

Traditional Chinese Musical troupe / Group / Band, with a variety of traditional Chinese Musical Instruments including: Sanxian, Gong, Cymbals drums, horns and a bell. Date: circa 1910s

Susi - with kitten, putting on a record
Susi - with a kitten, putting a record on the record player. 1950s

Myanmar - Street Musicians with Pattala and Mon Violin
Myanmar - Street Musicians playing a curved Burmese Xylophone or Pattala and the Mon violin, a 3-string fiddle with a western-like body played upright. Date: circa 1906

Medieval era. Craps players. Miniature Livre de Bonnes Meur
Medieval society. Craps players. Miniature Livre de Bonnes Meurs by Jacques Le Grand (m.1415). French school

Chile. Cineca game. French engraving. Color
South America. Chile. Cineca game. Indians playing with curved sticks. French engraving. 19th century. Color

Breviary of the Bishop of Montoya. The Assumption of the Vir
Breviary of the Bishop of Montoya (Pedro Garcia de Montoya, c.1456-1474). By Master of Burgo de Osma. 15th century. Parchment. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven. Miniature. Spain

Votive stele depicting a sacrificial procession to Dionysus and Artemis for the win in a contest of theater. Votive offering, ca. 360 BC. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Paul the sharper, by spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo (15
Paul the sharper. Picaresque novel by spanish writer of the baroque era Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645). Written around 1604 and published in 1626. Illustration (19th century). Book I. Chapter X

Pastoral dance. 18th century. Colored engraving

Troubadours singing and reciting a poem, written in Occitan. 12th and 13th centuries. Colored engraving

Greek Art. Greece. Skyphos (5th-4th centuries). It depicts a
Greek Art. Greece. Skyphos dated between late 5th century and early 4th century. It depicts a wedding procession. Courtship with dancer and musician playing the double flute

China. Men playing draughts in a tavern. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Theodore Samuel Ted Williams (1918- 2002). Nicknamed The Kid. American professional baseball player and manager. Monument. Boston. Massachusetts. United States

Muse playing the drum. Palace of Catalan Music. Barcelona. C
Modernism. Muse playing the drum. The upper body was culpted by Eusebi Arnau (1863-1933) and the mosaic work of their lower bodies was created by Lluis Bru (1868-1952). Chamber of the concert hall

Frauenlob, German poet (d. 1318), listening to a musician. Codex Manesse (ca.1300) by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. Miniature. Folio 399r. University of Heidelberg. Library. Germany

Apollo with his lyre. 600-550 B. C. Cyprus
GREEK ART. CYPRUS. Apollo with his lyre. Found in Poros. Dated between 600-550 b.C. Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art. Athens. Greece

Flower Market in Hong Kong, China
Flower Market on a sloping street in Hong Kong, China. Adverts are for the new Nohorn Machines (record player) and Graca & Co postcard and stamp dealer. Date: circa 1910

Crate label, Football, selected Almeria grapes, Dalias, Norberto Ferrer, Carcagente, Valencia, Spain. 1940s

Presentation of cup to cricket team captain
Presentation of a cup to WPC Haywood, captain of the policewomens cricket team. Date: 1971

Women police officers in tennis gear, Pembridge Hall
Women police officers in tennis gear, with racquets, on the steps of Pembridge Hall Section House for women police officers, at 17 Pembridge Square, Bayswater, London W2

Japanese woman playing a flute. Date: 1910s

Bagpipe player in a shopping precinct. Date: 1970s

Anne Lady Fanshawe
ANNE, LADY FANSHAWE (nee Harrison) singer, lute-player, French scholar, wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, diplomat. Date: 1625 - 1680

Family Christmas 1960S
" Ooh, look at this lovely card, darling", Mother says to Father as the children play contentedly with their new record player in this idyllic Christmas scene. Date: 1960s

Xmas Siblings
A girl hands her delighted brother his Christmas present while the toy record player plays and the tinsel on the Christmas tree glimmers... Date: 1960s

Polo at Simla 1917
A polo player at Simla. Date: 1917

Ice hockey woman does lips
Never mind the game; a female ice hockey player attends to her lipstick. Date: 1922

Boy Accordeon Play
A cheerful young accordeon player - probably Italian - in the streets of London. Date: circa 1905

Paradis Flamand 17C
LE PARADIS FLAMAND Drinking and dancing outside the village inn, while a bagpipe player provides the music Date: 17th century

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