Recorder Collection

Little boy lifts his jumper, Balham, SW London
A little boy lifting his jumper on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Sir Douglas Haig, Vice Admiral Keyes and Sir A Bodkin
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (1861-1928) and Vice Admiral Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945) being received at Dover by Sir Archibald Henry Bodkin (1862-1957)

Sir Forest Fulton, Red Judge, The Recorder Date: 1903

Graphophone, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Graphophone, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Pete Seeger, American folk musician and singer-songwriter
Peter "Pete" Seeger (b 1919), American folk musician and singer-songwriter. From the 1960s onwards he has performed protest music in support of international disarmament

Peasant wedding in a village in Austria, 1822. Musicians play violin and pipes leading a procession with bride and groom from a church. Nozze di villagio dei contadini dell Austria

Peasants dancing in a clearing to music from a recorder and bagpipes. After an engraving by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella, 17th century

Sword dance by Bedouin Arabs near the valley
Sword dance by nomadic Bedouin Arabs near the valley of the kings in Thebes by Giovanni Battista Belzoni. Two women dance a traditional sword dance to musical accompaniment from a recorder

Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land, Qing Dynasty
Chinese mountebank riding a boat on land accompanied by a musician playing a recorder, Qing Dynasty. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Reel-to-Reel Recorder Date: 1950

Stonemason
Christmas card. Glad be thy Christmas, Happy thy New Year. Portrait of a classical stone mason at work. A prize design for The Recorder 1882. Artist: (Possibly) Frederic Leighton. Date: 1882

Ken Achurch with spying equipment -- a fly bug in a glass tube, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Date: 1970s

Air crash investigator with sniffer dog
Air crash investigator Ken Jones with Rusty the Alsatian, an air crash investigation sniffer dog, whose task it is to search a vast pile of wreckage for the vital black box (flight data recorder)

Air crash investigation sniffer dog
Rusty the Alsatian, an air crash investigation sniffer dog, searches a vast pile of wreckage for the vital black box (flight data recorder), following a plane crash. Date: 1960s

JOHN GLYNN serjeant-at-law and recorder of London Date: 1722 - 1779

Abraham Cowley - 2
ABRAHAM COWLEY Poet, depicted with a recorder. Date: 1618 - 1667

Sir Thomas Chambers / Vf
SIR THOMAS CHAMBERS Recorder of London Date: 1804 - 1891

Japanese circa 1800, musicians, seller of whale meat, and sailor.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Clear Creek County Court House, Georgetown, Colorado, USA
Clear Creek County Court House (built in 1868), Georgetown, Colorado, USA. Date: 1940s

Cuttens photography apparatus
John Cuttens apparatus for automatically photographing any unusual incident. Date: 20th century

Cuttens pendulum recorder for psychical research
John Cuttens pendulum recorder (general view above, close-up below), for use in psychical research. This electronic device detects the movements of a pendulum which are recorded on the chart

Richard Martin
RICHARD MARTIN Recorder of London, noted for his wit. Date: 1570 - 1618

Lukas Hirscher
LUKAS HIRSCHER Russian recorder (magistrate) of Cronstadt. Date: CIRCA 1500-1520

Russian Basket Seller playing a whistle (to attract the attention of would-be basket purchasers). Date: 1902

Sheila Scott on the wing of her Piper Aztec. And the lightweight Akai VT100 video recorder weighs less than 24lb! May 1971. Date: 1971

Sheila Scott And her lightweight Akai VT100 video recorder
Sheila Scott. And her lightweight Akai VT100 video recorder weighs less than 24lb! May 1971. Date: 1971

Music Teacher
An enthusiastic music teacher encourages his pupils to sing a rousing chorus accompanyment to a girl playing a recorder. Date: early 1930s

RECORDERs STEPS
The Recorders Steps, Chester City Wall, Chester, England, were built in the early 1700s by the City Recorder, Roger Comberbach, to allow access to his house. Date: early 18th century

Title page of a music book, 1517.A woman supervises an ensemble of musicians. Date: 1517

Val d Ossau muscians
Val d Ossau men playing traditional local instruments to accompany dances. On the right we have a fiddler with his fiddle and on the right

Portable recorder, WWII
A portable recorder which is later used to transmit the recording by shortwave, during World War II

Period musical instrument making
A company specialising in the production of period musical instruments. A man turns a piece of wood on a lathe which will eventually form part of a recorder

Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder
A photograph of Steljes type-printing telegraph recorder, able to automatically transmit and print messages through a phone line, while callers were still conversing

Music Lesson / Bramfield
A class of pupils learning the recorder at Bramfield Primary School, Suffolk, England

Woman / Bra / Tape Player
A woman in a bikini puts on her favourite tunes

Ghost Detection Kit
Ghost detection equipment designed and built by John Cutten : wind vane - Solenoid - Cameras - Thermostat - Tape recorder - Photo-electric cell - microphone

Gas Fire 1960S
The ultimate in modern chic - a coal-effect gas fire with marble effect surround! This lucky woman warms herself by it with her cat, a sherry and reel-to-reel tape player

Morey Bernstein, businessman, hypnotist and writer
Morey Bernstein (1919-1999), Colorado businessman, amateur hypnotist, and author of the book, The Search for Bridey Murphy

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