Pleasure Collection (page 4)

Mr Thomas Sheridan in the character of Oedipus in John Drydens Oedipus, Covent Garden Theatre, 1755. Irish actor, educator, and proponent of the elocution movement 1719-1788

Gentleman assists a lady to board a small rowing boat
Chivalry - A Gentleman assists a lady in boarding a small rowing boat - 1900s America. Date: circa 1900s

Packed riverboat at Windsor
Packed upper level of a riverboat preparing to take a boatload of daytrippers for a journey up the River Thames at Windsor

Small Ferry boat - Bridlington, East Yorkshire
Small Ferry/excursion/pleasure boat - Bridlington, East Yorkshire - running non-landing coastal cruises from the harbour to Flamborough Head. Date: circa 1920s

Thames River Pleasure Steamer Golden Spray II, Westminster
The Thames River Pleasure Steamer Golden Spray II moored at a jetty on the Westminster Embankment, London - Photograph taken from Westminster Bridge - Coronation of Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Steamboat pleasure cruiser off Gibraltar

London to Paris by British Railways - Business or Pleasure. Date: 1952

Men and corn maidens performing the Pleasure
Men and corn maidens in feather headdress performing the Pleasure Dance, Zuni nation. Lithograph after a painting by Mary Wright Gill from John Wesley Powells 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of

The roller coaster at Belleville, 1812
The roller coaster at Belleville with its five cars riding a distance of 600 feet in 9 or 10 seconds. A fashionable woman in plumed bonnet, shawl and parasol watches from the terrace

Rollercoaster in the Jardin Baujon, early 19th century. Fashionable society enjoying the aerial walks, with cars pulled up the central ramp before riding fast chutes to left and right

Masquerade party on the rollercoaster at the Salle de l Odeon, 1815. Fashionable society at a masked ball in the pleasure gardens, and women wearing the Swiss Bernese style

The rollercoaster at Roule, Paris, early 19th century
A gentleman helps a woman step down from a car after a descent down the rollercoaster at Roule (Place de Ternes). Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Chinese pleasure junk, Qing Dynasty. Pleasure boat with latticed windows and large cabins, usually rowed or pulled. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Pleasure Fair, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

Cries of Paris - street trader with basket

Cartoon, Gaieties of Greenwich Fair. 19th century

Hastings - pleasure boat 1857
Men carrying wealthy people in their best attire onto a pleasure-boat. Date: 1857

Cartoon, Pleasures of the Sea Side - Nice Breeze for a Sail, Sir! Date: circa 1840s

Peasant man and woman, Italy - Your Favourite Song - she holds up the music while he plays the clarinet

Cartoon, French soldiers departing on leave, WW1
Cartoon by Pierre Abadie-Landel, Les Joies du Poilu (The Pleasures of the Poilu), French soldiers departing on leave, First World War. 1917

Cartoon, French soldiers relaxing on leave, WW1
Cartoon by Pierre Abadie-Landel, Les Joies du Poilu (The Pleasures of the Poilu), French soldiers relaxing on leave, First World War. 1917

Thames Season: Some Popular River Craft 1905
View of the River Thames near Cookham Lock. Date: 1905

Timetable, inter-island service, Canary Islands
Timetable for the inter-island pleasure cruise service, Canary Islands. (1 of 2) Date: 1913

Pedespeed 1870
19th century recreation early roller skates, fourteen or fifteen inches in diameter wheels attached below the knees with a foot piece. Date: 1870

Pleasure steamer at London Bridge, London
People embarking on a pleasure steamer on the River Thames near London Bridge, London, with Tower Bridge in the distance. circa 1900s

Pleasure velocipede 1869
New World, pleasure, recreation or exercise, this newly invented contraption was used by young and old in public or private grounds

The Whirl of the town New York 1905
A charabanc extremely full of lively American women in Madison Square Gardens, New York. 1905

Helter Skelter at Luna Park, Coney Island, New York, USA. circa 1910s

Excursion steamboats leaving London 1900
Excursion steamboats leaving fresh Wharf, London Bridge. Date: 1900

New Pier at Hastings 1872
The new pleasure pier in Hastings, East Sussex, England, opened in August 1872. Date: August 1872

THEATREPHONE POSTER
A lady enjoys all the pleasure of the theatre (except for the acting, the sets and the stage effects, the ambiance and the pleasure of running into ones friends) Date: circa 1896

OXFORD / PARSONS PLEASURE
Oxford: Parsons Pleasure, a popular bathing spot Date: 1893

ALCOTT AND CHILDREN
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT American writer, depicted with some of the children to whom her books have given so much pleasure Date: 1832 - 1888

Rotary boat at Woodwards Garden, San Francisco 1886
Woodwards Garden, San Francisco, California, was a combination amusement park, museum, art gallery, zoo and aquarium operating from 1866 to 1891

Tobogganing at the Liverpool Exhibition 1886
International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry opened on 11 May 1886 by Queen Victoria, consisted of things from the British Empire

Roller skating in Brompton 1874
Men, women and children roller-skating at Princes Cricket Ground, Brompton. Date: 1874

USA / LOS ANGELES
Main Street in the famous health and pleasure resort of Southern California Date: 1894

PICNIC BY RIVER / ALLOM
A party of pleasure - a grand picnic by a river Date: circa 1840

Vauxhall Gardens - 1820
Tom, Jerry and Logic making the most of an evening at Vauxhall Gardens. Date: 1820

Music - Dancing - Vauxhall Gardens
Music and dancing at Vauxhall. The band play music from an illuminated bandstand which people dance all around

SPIRIT SACRIFICE TO WINE
Man in drunken stupor, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasure of wine to heavenly promises

SPIRIT IGNORED FOR WINE
Man in drunken stupour, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasure to heavenly promises

Lurking demon in the corn
A demon lurks among the cornstalks, waiting to ensnare the innocent girl as she pursues a butterfly, symbol of frivolity... Date: 1866

Metropolitan Meat Market
19th century engraving of the Metropolitan Meat Market. The market originally covered 30 acres of the site and grounds of Copenhagen House (previously a pleasure resort and tea garden)

The Brass Bottle, a farcical play by F Anstey, at the Pleasure Gardens Theatre, Folkestone, previously at The Vaudeville Theatre, Mr Arthur Hardys Company

Photograph by Joseph Green, Bridge Street, Caversham, Reading showing a group of jolly chaps having a lot of fun in long rowing boats on the River Thames at Caversham. Date: circa 1895

Pleasure Boats, Lough Corrib, Galway City, Republic of Ireland

Deep sea fishing (capturing a blue marlin) off Miami
Deep sea fishing (capturing a blue marlin) off the Florida Coast at Miami Beach, USA. Date: 1940

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