Racket Collection

Goodwins toilet soap, 1930s
An advert for Goodwins toilet soap, featuring a smiling young woman holding a tennis racket. 1937-1938

Vaslav Nijinsky / Tennis
VASLAV NIJINSKY Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, seen here in his tennis outfit for Jeux

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield - devised, developed and popularised the game of lawn tennis in the early 1870s. 1881

Teddy bear playing tennis. Date: circa 1900s

SNCF poster, Chamonix, France, in summer and winter, offering golf, hockey, mountaineering, skiing and tennis. Date: circa 1948

Yvon Petra playing tennis
Yvon Petra (1916-1984), French tennis player, winning the Mens Singles World Championship in 1946 at Wimbledon. He defeated the Australian Geoffrey Brown in the finals

Young Girl in a white dress holding a small racquet and ball
Cabinet Photograph of a young girl in a white dress holding a small racquet and ball Date: circa 1890s

Edwardian family ready for tennis - early 1900s

Tennis Players early 1900s

Debenham and Freebody fashion catalogue
Debenham and Freebody, Washing Summer Frocks, Women's Fashion catalogue Date: circa 1930

Women's summer costumes by Hygeia
Women's Boating, Cricket, Tennis and Tricycle Summer Costumes by Hygeia Date: 1888

Vivian McGrath
Australian tennis player Vivian Viv McGrath (1916-1978), here aged sixteen. He was famous for his two-handed backhand. Date: 1932

Tennis Rackets
Images showing the differing constructions of tennis rackets through the ages. From the museum of F. H. Ayres, sports outfitters. Date: circa 1924

Ex Libris Bookplate, Joan Silvester Horne, woman reading a book with a tennis racket under her arm

Kay Stammers, tennis player
British tennis player Kay Stammers (1914-2005), shortly before her appearance in the Wimbledon Ladies Singles Final. On this occasion she lost to Alice Marble. Date: 1939

Fleet Prison, London, by the side of the River Fleet

Comic postcard, Woman walking along railway track Date: 20th century

Child with tennis racket Date: circa 1890

Comic postcard, Family arriving on the beach
Comic postcard, Family of five, plus a dog, arriving on the beach Date: 20th century

Playing tennis in India, c. 1880 s
Playing tennis in India, c.1880 s

Sporting girls
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Tom White, Royal Real Tennis Club, Hampton Court
Tom White, Veteran Professional, Royal Real Tennis Club, Hampton Court, Surrey. 1903

Vic Seixas, American tennis player
Vic Seixas (b.1923), American tennis player. circa 1950s

Couple posing with tennis rackets, probably in Blanefield, Scotland. circa 1890s

Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player
Mervyn Rose (1930-2017), Australian tennis player. circa 1950s

Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, joined at the chest, playing badminton. circa 1829

Tennis clothes designed by Mrs Fearnley Whittingstall
Tennis player, Mrs E. Fearnley Whittingstall, formerly Miss Eileen Bennett, modelling a variety of tennis clothes she had designed. Date: 1933

Ladies playing badminton in a garden, 1817
Elegant ladies or meveilleuses playing badminton in a garden. Several have their hair in the fashionable short cut known as the martyr or victime

The game of badminton played in a park, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph after Langlume from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse), Librairie Hachette

The game of tennis on the Champs Elysees, 19th century
The game of lawn tennis or longue paume on the Champs Elysees, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

White-booted racket tail, Ocreatus underwoodii (Rough-legged racket-tailed humming-bird, Trochilus underwoodii). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardines Naturalists

Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player, wearing long shorts. Date: 1933

Mrs Fearnley-Whittingstall in tennis shorts, with a Greek sculpture of an Amazon by Pheidias for comparison. Date: 1933

Children playing badminton on a greetings card - May the shuttlecock of life be always tossed by gentle hands! Date: circa 1900s

Cats playing tennis on a postcard -- A Hot Game. circa 1890s

Kittens playing tennis on a French birthday postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Knitting pattern cover, Mens Tennis Pullover in cable stitch. 1940s

Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883 - 1941), British tennis player, winning an Olympic gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Date: 1905

Phil May cartoon - Tuneless Street band
1904

Fashion for tennis 1910
Women models wearing fashionable clothing for a game of tennis. Date: 1910

Types of grenades in WWI
The Marten Hale hand grenade, which can be also fitted to any type of service rifle. Hale time grenade, bomb is thrown, the ignition of the time-fuse does not occur until the grenade reaches a

Greetings card in the shape of a badminton racquet. Date: circa 1890s

Two pupils at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, dressed for tennis. Date: 1911

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - playing tennis. circa 1910s

Young woman holding a tennis racket
Young woman in a sailor suit and straw hat, holding a tennis racket -- One to Love. Date: circa 1908

The Avenue tennis racket advertising showcard, 1890
An exquisite advertising show card from around 1890 for The Avenue tennis racquet manufactured by Clapshaw and Cleave of Birmingham, Bradford and Brighton

Pelota - Champion Player Jean Urruty - South West France
World Champion Pelota player Jean Urruty pictured at Saint Jean de Luz, France. Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan

Taking a break from the tennis
Three women enjoy a drink and a picnic while taking a break from playing tennis. 1927

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