Playing Collection (page 96)

Miniature golf course and Peasholm Lake, Scarborough
View of the Miniature Golf Course and Peasholm Lake (right), at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Date: 1920s

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

Game / Playing Shop C1890
Children playing at shops with the help of two chairs and a tablecloth. Date: circa 1890

England / London / Parks / Hyd
Children playing in Kensington Gardens. Date: 1906

Dressing Dolly, 1911
An American girl makes new clothes for her doll. Date: 1911

Game / Indoor / Paper Cutout
A little girl and a friendly young man make paper cutouts from a newspaper. Date: 1932

London Chess Club
Members of the City of London Chess Club playing a new game of chess, invented by Polish composer Ludomir Michal Rogowski. 81 (not 64) pieces and even a Dictator piece! Date: 3 October 1932

Massenet / Fantasio 1909
JULES MASSENET French composer: a satirical view Date: 1842 - 1912

Boy Playing with Puzzle
A small boy playing with a puzzle. Date: circa 1960

TEXTBOOK / 1880 / PLATE 12
Plate 12 features pictures of books, clocks and boys playing with wooden hoops. Date: 1880

Playing hospital
A girl plays Hospital with her dolls, all of whom are suffering from one ailment or another. 1922

Playing at Soldiers
French children with makeshift helmets and swords, playing at soldiers Date: Twentieth century

Children taking teddy for a ride across the snow
Three children take Teddy for a ride 1910

Mother Hubbard / Flute
She went to the fruiterers To buy him some fruit But when she came back He was playing the flute Date: 1890s

Waves at Brighton
Playing in the waves at Brighton, East Sussex. Date: 1974

Old Mother Hubbard: Playing flute

Children in Nursery 1905
Children playing games in the nursery; a boy pretends his two little sisters are horses! circa 1905

Medieval Card-Playing
A group of men and women playing cards in medieval times; they are kept refreshed with water drawn from a fountain Date: 14th century

Doll Dried after Bath
A doll is dried by its owner after taking a bath. Date: circa 1890

Blind Mans Buff 1905
Five children playing Blind Mans Buff at a party, one hiding behind a door. circa 1905

Game / Shuffleboard 17C
Men playing shuffleboard (or shovel-board) in an English inn Date: 17th century

Berlin Showgirls / 1927
A line of showgirls pose for the camera in front of a large poster of a scantily clad girl playing the saxophone Date: 1927

Racial / Japan / Musicians
Three Japanese musicians playing stringed and percussion instruments, with three men listening in the background Date: late 19th century

Female Types / Quadrille
Two demure young ladies who spend their leisure time playing easy quadrille duets on the piano. Date: circa 1850

Noisy Musical Boy
A noisy little boy marches round banging a drum and playing a trumpet. Date: circa 1900

Children Walkers
A little boy playing in the nursery turns his younger brothers in their baby walkers into horses, just for fun. Date: late 19th century

Children Playing 1922
Children playing games. Date: 1922

British in Burma 1889
Officers relax after a hard day bashing rebels who resent British presence in their country. Date: 1889

Shakespeare: Puck / 1908
Puck/Robin Goodfellow: Shakespeares master of rustic mischief; the amoral spirit who delights in playing pranks... Date: 1908

Boys Big Bonfire / Photo
School boys stand proudly in front of their huge bonfire erected on a playing field. An eerily realistic guy stands atop the mound - or perhaps he is real? Date: 1920s

Blind Mans Buff / Simmons
Children playing Blind Mans Buff at a party Date: 1885

Bowls at Country House
A gentleman instructs an elegant lady on the best method of playing her bowl. Date: 1893

Playing Scrabble 1970S
Three women playing the word conundrum game Scrabble. Date: 1970s

Playing Cards Workshop
Men making playing cards in a French workshop in the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Nellie Farren / Alphabet
NELLIE (Ellen) FARREN Burlesque entertainer, specialising in the playing of boys roles, seen here performing with Messrs Terry and Royce. Date: 1848 - 1904

Eng and Chang, Siamese twins, playing shuttlecock
Eng and Chang (circa 1814-1874), Siamese twins at the age of 18, playing shuttlecock. circa 1832

Old Mother Hubbard: Dancing, reading news, wearing clothes

Britannia and Eve magazine, February 1940
Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful blonde woman who creates a scottie dog shadow on the wall behind her using her hands

BRT Bergen Street
Bergen St. Billiard Room. Men in uniform playing billiards in the Brooklyn Rapid Transits Bergen St. Clubhouse billiard room

BRT Club House
B.R.T. 58th St. Club House. - Men in uniform playing billiards in the Brooklyn Rapid Transits 58th St. Clubhouse billiard room

BRT Flatbush Depot, New York
Canarsie Club Room. Men in uniform posed behind a pool table in the Brooklyn Rapid Transits Canarsie Clubhouse billiard room

Southampton, Long Island
Southampton L.I. Young men and women playing and swimming in the surf at the beach at Southampton, L.I

Narragansett, Rhode Island
Bathing, Narragansett Pier. People in bathing suits playing in surf

Demonstrating a pianola
Aeolian Co. Man demonstrating the Aeolian player piano

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 4 of 8
and took them right away

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott
Front cover of The Queen of Hearts illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, showing the Queen of Hearts walking upon a carpet of playing cards and proudly displaying one of her famous jammy treats

Childrens Choir, National Childrens Home, Chipping Norton
The so-called Cripples Choir at the National Childrens Home, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, opened in 1903 for what were described as delicate and affected children

Band and parade at Mettray Colony, France
A band and parade of inmates at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France. In the 1840s, the colony pioneered the cottage homes system where boys lived in small

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