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Argentine GuitaristsArgentinian guitarists strike a masculine pose, one foot on a rock, as they play a duet together while their coy womenfolk hide from the camera, South America. Date: 1930s
Chelsea SupportersA group of Chelsea Football Club supporters, mostly women and one of them playing a banjo, during a Cup Tie. Date: early 1930s
Anne Maria HughesANNE MARIA HUGHES (nee Petre) the wife of Arthur Hughes, idly plucking the strings of her guitar. Date: ? - 1864
Japan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional KotoJapan - Woman in a kimono playing a traditional 13-stringed Koto. Date: circa 1907
Japan - Geisha Girl playing the ViolinA young Japanese girl playing the violin. Date: circa 1906
Raphael Kirchner - Pretty lady on a Chimney with broom harpFantasy card by Raphael Kirchner - Pretty lady sat above the rooftops atop a Chimney plucking the strings of a broom harp Date: circa 1903
George Vs Silver Jubilee - Piccadilly end - Bond St, LondonGeorge Vs Silver Jubilee - Piccadilly end of Bond St, London, showing street decoratons, bunting, banners and floral tributes. Date: 1935
Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte - daughter of Prince JeromePrincesse Mathilde Bonaparte (1820-1904), daughter of Prince Jerome, so niece of Napoleon: married Anatol Demidoff but divorced in 1846: French social leader at court of Napoleon III
Kobe, Japan - Bund Street - paper lantern strings - Festival Date: circa 1905
Vietnam - Traditional costume of woman from Chinese borderVietnam - Traditional costume of woman from Chinese / Vietnamese border region. Date: circa 1904
Wandering Algerian musicianItinerant Algerian musician playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. Date: circa 1910s
Blackpool, Lancashire - Illuminated Butterfly Date: circa 1920s
Blackpool, Lancashire - Illuminated Lifeboat Date: circa 1920s
Silhouette of Street Musicians - Geneva, SwitzerlandSilhouette of Street Musicians (Harpist and viol player) - Geneva, Switzerland. A street dog seems to be enjoying their performance! Date: circa 1910s
Northeastern Vietnam - Woman of the Lo Lo People (Yi People)Vietnam - Dong Van, a rural district of Ha Giang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam - Woman of the Lo Lo People (Yi People). Date: 1905
Arabian Dancers - Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1902
A Beauty of the Island of Rarotonga, Cook IslandsA Beauty of the island of Rarotonga, part of the Cook Islands. Date: circa 1920s
Drying radishes in the sun - Japan Date: circa 1910s
Woman in traditional Russian CostumeReproduction of a painting by Viktor Alexejewitsch Bobrov depicting a young Russian woman in traditional costume - entitled Antonida. Date: 1902
Sudanese old man with a very toothy grinSudanese jolly old man bedecked with colourful textiles and strings of small shells with a very toothy grin (or lack thereof!). Date: circa 1910s
Turkish Rosary Bead sellers Date: circa 1910s
Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein - Wife of Wilhelm IIThe first wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Emperor, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921). Date: circa 1905
Vina - Indian InstrumentVina - The most ancient on Indian instruments, the great Vina is now generally known as the " Been". The instrument is composed of a bamboo and two gourds and has a peculiarly soft
Spinet - this lovely example with its six-legged stand was made in London by Stephen Keene at the Sign of the Virginal on Threadneedle Street in the 17th century
Sordino - known to the French as a pochette - this instrument is a pocket fiddle. Derived in form from the medieval Rebec, orignating from the Near East and also known as the Gigue
Lute - In general use throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, but its origin can be traced back to to about 1000 BC. The instrument illustrated is Italian
The Empress Harpsichord - made for the Empress Marie Theresa. The strings are plucked by quills rather than struck by hammers
Chinese Fiddles - Two kinds of Saw Chine or Chinese fiddles are shown here. The first is a Saw Duang, identified by the jewels around one of th pegs
Russian Singer - Madam Maria Karinskaya. Date: 1910
A Boyaryshnya - A Boyar WomanA Boyaryshnya - A Boyar (high ranking) Russian Woman with elaborate headdress, sheer veil and strings of fine pearls. Date: 1909
Christmas card in the shape of a shrimpHandmade Christmas card in the shape of a shrimp, which comes out of its shell to reveal a seasonal greeting. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Japanese MusicianA Japanese geisha girl playing a shamishen (a type of harp). Date: early 1930s
Chinese man frightened by two toy figures of Japanese soldiers and a turtle hanging by strings. Date 1895
Russian soldiers frightened by toy figures of Japanese soldiers hanging by strings. Date 1904 or 1905
The Year of the Dog - A Japanese card, but produced for the Chinese market. A cute dog holds the string of a Chinese kite in his mouth. Date: 1910
The Third Annual Electrical Show, Chicago, USA - held at The Coliseum between January 13th and 25th, 1908. Date: 1908
Amerindian warrior of indeterminant home in full traditional costume bedecked with beads and holding a long spear or blowpipe. Date: circa 1910s
Hungarian beauty in striking pose, wearing fine art nouveau headdress, strings of pearls Date: 1904
Brazilian MusicianA crooner of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, singing into the large microphone and strumming his guitar Radio Rio. Date: 1930s
Indigenous American Baby in a papooseIndigenous Americans Baby in a decorated papoose Date: circa 1910
Tabriz, Iran - Fruit SellerA Beautiful early photographic picture postcard showing a Fruit Seller. Rather bizarrely there is a partial view of a chap on a ladder emerging into the top-right hand corner of the shot - what he is
Three Boys playing with Soldier Marionnettes - World War Two era. Date: circa 1940
Putting on a corset - with assistanceA lady requires some assistance in the tightening of the laces of her corset. The rather caustic caption reads: " Reducing the Surplus" !! Date: circa 1905
Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (3 / 3)Torquay, Devon - Illuminations - Vane Hill and the Harbour Date: circa 1930
Ajaccio - Corsica, FranceA street stall selling vegetables on a corner of Napoleon Way ( Cours Napoleon ) at Ajaccio - Corsica, France Date: circa 1910s
Launching a huge Japanese kite on a festival day, Japan. Date: circa 1910s
Toad in Disguise / GrahameToad in disguise: " She arranged the shawl with a professional fold, & tied the strings of the rusty bonnet under his chin." Date: First published: 1908
Violin on its OwnThe violin has four strings, tuned in perfect fifths : the music for it is invariably written in the G clef. Date: 1897