Player Collection (page 23)

Summer sport on the Continent
Supplement cover of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, reporting on the sporting possibilities on the Continent. A young woman in tennis costume points across the Channel while her male

The evolution of road travel: the casual motorists of 1921. Motoring as a means to an end: lawn tennis players arriving in their car, free from cumbersome goggles, veils and voluminous wraps

Miss Helen Wills Moody in action
Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998), American tennis player and eight times winner of the Wimbledon championship pictured in a series of action shots. Date: 1938

Lillian Walker - American film actress of the silent era
Lillian Walker (1887-1975), one of the Vitagraph players -an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 171 films between 1909 and 1934. Date: circa 1910

Adele de Garde - American silent film actress
Adele de Garde (1899circa 1965), one of the Vitagraph players - an American silent film actress, who appeared in 114 films between 1908 and 1918. Date: circa 1909

Maurice Costello
Maurice George Costello (1877-1950) - American vaudeville stage actor, later playing a principal role in early American films, both as a leading man, supporting player and director. Date: circa 1910

A. F. Wilding, tennis player
Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. His championship run came to an end in 1914 when he was beaten by Australian

Pan by Laurie Tayler
A scene with a group of people ranging from a golfer, a tennis player and bathers all being attracted and led by the music that pan is playing on his saxophone. Date: 7th April 1926

Stoker / Tennis Player
H. J. Stoker, newly retired tennis player, proudly showing off the many cup and trophies he has won over the years in many tennis tournaments. Date: 12 December 1929

Mouton, Lute-Player
MOUTON French lute-player performing chamber music at the court of Louis XIV. Date: CIRCA 1690

Croquet / D. D. Steele
Ms D.D. Steele, famous croquet player, four times winner of the Beddow Cup. Date: early 1930s

John Jacob Lowenthal
JOHN JACOB LOWENTHAL Hungarian-English chess player Date: 1810 - 1876

Advertisement for Expanded Fittings furniture -- female model (Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

American Pianist and Composer Ernest Schelling
Ernest Schelling (1876-1939) - American Pianist, Composer, Conductor and Musical Director. Date: circa 1910

Unnamed British Goalkeeper - Early 20th century. Sadly his name (and hence his feats between the posts) are lost to the past on this occasion. Date: circa 1900s

Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Polish pianist, composer, statesman
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) - Polish pianist, composer and statesman. Date: circa 1903

Alexander Ilyich Siloti - Russian Pianist Conductor Composer
Alexander Ilyich Siloti (1863-1945) - Russian Pianist Conductor Composer Date: 1904

Silhouette of Street Musicians - Geneva, Switzerland
Silhouette of Street Musicians (Harpist and viol player) - Geneva, Switzerland. A street dog seems to be enjoying their performance! Date: circa 1910s

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

Schoolboy asks other to play cricket with adult terminology
A 13 year-old Senior Schoolboy asks his 12 year-old Junior fellow other to play cricket. " Say, Brown, will you play cricket for us tomorrow? - We re short of a Man!" Date: 1900

Rural Russia - Villagers, including a dapper accordion player and three headscarf-wearing young ladies holding bouquets of flowers

Traditional round circle dancing in a Russian village. Date: 1902

Maxim Gorky, Russian Writer with a Gusli Player
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Maxim Gorky) (1868-1936), Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist

Schoolboy suggest a game of ping pong to W G Grace
" I should like to play you at ping pong" !! A young schoolboy suggests a sensible choice of sporting contest when faced with the colossus of the cricketing world, Dr W G Grace

Pipe Player of the Solomon Islands, a collection of nearly one thousand islands in Oceania (that form a sovereign country) - performing music for a traditional dance. Date: circa 1930s

Portugal - Saloios Dance. A Saloio is a non-urban (rural, country) person. Originally it was a term applied to someone who lives in the rural areas surrounding Lisbon, the capital of Portugal

Portugal - Girl Singer from Alfama, Lisbon playing a Guitar
Portugal - Pretty girl street singer and Portuguese Guitar player from the Alfama District of Lisbon. The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra (Portuguese)

Fishermen - A Happy Corner
A Happy Old Salt playing the accordion to a young child, whilst a younger sailor sits with a model sailing ship. Another fisherman and his wife and an elderly nanny complete the scene

Highland Broadsword Dance - 1st Seaforth Highlanders
The Highland Broadsword Dance by the Pipers of HM 1st Seaforth Highlanders. Date: circa 1908

Blind Musician, Bermuda with three young children persussionists accompanying his banjo playing. All are wearing remarkable costumes (which must have been seriously hot!). Date: circa 1909

Young Fiddler, Bermuda
Young Fiddle player, Bermuda Date: circa 1910s

Injured footballer - Aston Villa
Cartoon postcard of an injured footballer entitled The Result of the Match by Martin Anderson ( Cynicus ) - this was template over-printed with the details of various teams, in this case

Tennis player with trophy c. 1910

Minstrel playing his lute as he wanders along 15th Century

OSTADE, Adriaen van (1610-1684). A Flute Player

LA TOUR, Georges de (1593-1652). The Vielle Player. 1620 - 1625. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Nantes. Fine Arts Museum

JORDAENS, Jacob (1593-1678). Three Street Musicians. 1645 - 1650. Flemish art. Oil on wood. SPAIN. Madrid. Prado Museum

The shaker player in Rome. Engraving

Zither player Apollo. 5th c. BC. Classical Greek art. Sculpture on bronze. ITALY. Naples. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: ITALY. Pompeii

Interior of a coffee in a city of Morocco. 20th c. Engraved color. Engraving

Brass band marching along a street
A brass band marching along a street, and playing as they go. There is a clarinet, two cornets, French horns and tubas. Other people are following, some with flags

Field Marshal Douglas Haig - Senior British Military Officer
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (18611928) - a British senior officer during World War I. Commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War. 1926

Guglielmo Marconi - Italian Radio Pioneer
Guglielmo Marconi (18741937) - Italian inventor, known as the " Father of long distance radio transmission" and for his development of Marconis law and a radio telegraph system. 1926

John Harrison standing by gramophone, 1906 Date: 1906

Baseball player at bat, in front of catcher and umpire. Date c1895

Scotland versus England, 1883
An international football match at Sheffield, 1883. Scotland defeated England with three goals to two. 1883

Lord Birkenhead playing tennis with Lili de Alvarez
Frederick Edwin Smith, Lord Birkenhead (1872 - 1930), British lawyer, statesman and well-known society figure, pictured playing mixed doubles with the Spanish ladies tennis player

Absorption of a baseball player. Date c1889 Dec. 19

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