Racket Collection (page 3)

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

Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife
" Every Morning I feel like shooting." An American man seemingly at the end of his tether with the less-than-tuneful efforts of his enthusiastic piano-playing, singing wife

Basque Region of France - Pelota game in progress
The Basque game of Pelota played in front of a large crowd in Basque France. Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan

Three American Sporty Types
Three Queens Three American sporty girls, one holding a tennis racket - peep over a garden fence. Date: circa 1910s

Design for book cover, In the Summer Holidays
Design for a book cover entitled In the Summer Holidays by Jennett Humphreys. Watercolour and gouache on copy paper. Blackie, London; Silver Studio. 1897

Tennis player with trophy c. 1910

The Music of the East
Humourous postcard entitled The Music of the East, depicting a braying Egyptian donkey, singing out to an empty desert... Date: 1908

Pelota played at Saint Jean de Luz
The Basque game of Pelota played in front of a large crowd at Saint Jean de Luz, France. Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan

Yvon Petra in tennis whites
Yvon Petra(1916-1984), French tennis player, pictured here posing in his tennis whites, prior to winning the 1946 Wimbledon mens singles title

French Ball-Boy / 1629
French page in sporty gear including flamboyant hat, and sword ready to pick up the stray balls of his masters game

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