Racquet Collection (page 3)

Edwardian couple playing tennis -- the man runs to hit the ball. Date: early 1900s

Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Brussels, Belgium
Scene at a Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1900

Three children playing shuttlecock on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement, Solar Tip Shoes
Advertisement for Solar Tip Shoes, made by John Mundell & Co of Philadelphia, USA. Showing girls and boys playing in their genuine Solar Tip footwear

Cover design, School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting a young woman with her pet dog

Tennis couple, 1929
A couple dressed in fashionable tennis whites, pictured in the extensive gardens of an idyllic looking home. Date: 1929

Five girls with tea tray in a garden
Five girls with a tea tray in a garden on a summers day. A badminton net is set up on the lawn in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Blue-crowned racquet tail, Prioniturus discurus.. Handcolored steel engraving by Joseph Kidd from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Browns Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Edinburgh

Tennis party, c. 1880s
A family group, with some of the party dressed in sporting attire. The woman on the left holds a tennis racquet. Date: c.1880sA

Victorian family group with tennis racquet
A rather serious-looking Victorian family group of a couple with two children and a tennis racquet. Date: circa 1880s

Firefighters playing tennis during a break, London
Firefighters playing tennis outside their fire station during a break, London

Anthony Wilding and Arthur Balfour at Nice, 1914
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured in Nice in 1914 about to partner Mr Arthur Balfour, British conservative M.P

The Princes Club Racquet Courts, 1857
The Princes Club Racquet Courts at Hans Place, Belgrave Square, London. A private gentlemans club, designed by Mr. B. Burton, consisting of three courts, one of which is pictured here

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

Business card design, woman playing tennis
Business card design, depicting a woman playing tennis. Date: 20th century

Two women at a tennis club, with a tennis court behind them

Woman at a tennis club, holding a racquet

Men and women taking tea in a garden
Three men and three women taking tea in a garden. A little dog looks up expectantly. The two younger women have tennis racquets. C.1900

Print Users Yearbook -- tennis match
Print Users Yearbook -- people playing a tennis match in a large garden, with a tray of drinks ready for when they take a break. Date: circa 1930s

Carnival float, The Typists Dream, showing young women in holiday attire, as if on a beach, rather than sitting in an office typing

1920s tennis fashion illustration
A colour illustration of a lady posed with a tennis racquet

Japan - Geisha girl holding a badminton racquet (about to hit a ball) Date: circa 1904

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

Silhouette of a woman playing tennis

Silhouette of a fashionable woman on her travels. A man in the background is lifting a bag of golf clubs

Silhouette of a tennis player
Full-length silhouette of a tennis player with two tennis racquets tucked under his arm. 1926

India - Pune (Poona) - The Gymkhana (a public place for athletic games - " a ball house" is the direct translation from the Hindi) Date: circa 1907

Tatler front cover, Wimbledon 1962
Front cover of The Tatler, reporting on Wimbledon Tennis Championship for 1962 and particularly tennis fashions. The girl clearing the net in style is wearing a tennis tunic by tennis fashion leading

Teddy Tinling tennis dress 1962
A terylene and cotton tennis dress designed by tennis fashion guru Teddy Tinling with frills trimming the hem and high neckline while the back swoops to a low and glamorous exit view. Date: 1962

Family & Beach Cricket
A family pose for a photograph on the beach at Weston-super-Mare in front of the Grand Pier with all their beach toys: cricket bat and stumps, a racquet and ball

Art Nouveau Tennis
An art nouveau girl plays tennis with an art nouveau racquet Date: circa 1905

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

Mrs Kitty Godfree, English tennis player
A depiction of Mrs Kitty Godfree (nee McKane), English tennis player, by a rival player, the American Helen Wills. Both of them were appearing at Wimbledon. Godfree has just finished a backhand drive

Victorian schoolboy ready for the holidays
A Victorian schoolboy, smoking a small cigar, sits on a pile of suitcases on the platform of a railway station, ready for the long school holidays

Men playing tennis at Crosslands House
Two men taking part in a doubles tennis match at Crosslands House

Colonial gent plays tennis, Iran
A colonial gentleman standing in a hard tennis court, Bushire (Bushehr), on the south west coast of Iran. At the time of this photograph the city had been under British occupation for five years

Suzanne Lenglens Tennis Outfits for Selfridges
A page depicting the outfits designed and modelled by Suzanne Lenglen for Selfridges, shown exclusively in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

Tennis & Garden Frocks
Hammock girl wears green voile dress. Made by Robinson and Cleaver as are the two tennis frocks of heavy silk. Lemonade set is from Gamages

Tennis Girl / Woof 1950S
Sporty young blonde poses with a tennis racquet

Pin-Up with Racquet
Fresh faced girl-next-door type wonders if, theres anyone for tennis?. She has a wooden Dunlop racquet

Photo with Racquet
A superior looking young man sits on a rustic style chair in his tennis whites and cap holding a tennis racquet

Ladys Tennis Outfit
This womans smart one-piece tennis outfit is both attractive to look at, and practical to wear

Tennis Player 1927
A young woman in her tennis gear, with her racquet under her arm, all set for a match

Tennis Partner C1920
MY PARTNER

A NOVICE
A novice, not very sure how she should hold her racquet, let alone return the ball

Tennis / Ball out 1919
The unfortunate service

Tea Party / Greenaway
Thin faced little girls in mob caps partake of cake & tea seated on rush chairs. A racquet & shuttlecock have momentarily been abandoned for the sake of refreshment

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