Raquet Collection

Tatler cover - Gabrielle Chanel & Alain Gerbault
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a snapshot taken at Eaton Hall, Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, where Alain Gerbault, captain of the Firecrest and French lawn tennis star, was staying

1960s tennis fashion
Frilly panties by Teddy Tinling, as worn by tennis players in the 1960s. Worn with a navy banded white cardigan by Maxine Leighton

Bystander cover, Summer Number 1935
Gloriously colourful front cover of The Bystanders Summer Number featuring an athletic lady tennis playing enjoying a match on a suburban court

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

Sporting girls
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Butterfly collector tools, 19th century. Butterfly net, raquet nets, pincers, pins, etc. Handcoloured lithograph from Musee du Naturaliste dedie a la Jeunesse, Histoire des Papillons

Costume of Madame Raquet, merveilleuse in the martyr style.. Costume of Madame Raquet, merveilleuse in the martyr style. She wears a round English hat in beaver skin

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

Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 June 2, 1997), World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. Pictured winning the final of the United States womens singles championship

American tennis players
Two American couples take to the court for a Love Match ! Date: 1907

American Wightman Cup Team
Members of the American Wightman Cup Team, from left to right: Josephine Cruickshank, Carolin Babcock, Helen Jacobs, Alice Marble and Sarah Palfrey. Date: 1934

Cheery Families - Miss Bounce the Barristers Daughter. 1890s

Women in Sport - Betty Nuthall & M. H. A. Cator, tennis
Winner and runner up of the girls tennis junior championship of Great Britain at Wimbledon in 1925, Miss Betty Nuthall and Miss M. H. A. Cator

Fred Perry, British tennis player
Fred Perry (1909-1995), British tennis player, in action. Date: circa 1936

Helen Wills Moody playing Tennis
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody practising Tennis in Japan. 1932

Silhouette of contrasting transport, 1874 and 1924, by H.L. Oakley, in Tennis magazine, 24 July 1924. Above: a group of people arriving at a country house by horse-drawn carriage in 1874

Silhouette of people playing tennis on a sunny day, by H.L. Oakley. Date: circa 1920s

Sunlight Yarn Knitting book - vintage tennis fashion
Front cover of a Sunlight Yarn Knitting book featuring a young woman in a fine knitted jumper readying herself to take a smash during a tennis match. Date: 1914-1918

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

Tatler Travel Number front cover, 1956
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Tatler Travel Number by Lowen featuring, rather inexplicably, a red squirrel, who is packing various bits of sporting equipment

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