Swinging Collection (#11)

Girl on a swing
Edwardian girl on a swing. Date: 1905

Chocolate box design, lady on a swing
Chocolate box design, featuring a lady on a swing made of pink roses. Date: 20th century

Lifeboat man rescuing a baby
A lifeboat man swinging across the waves on a lifebelt, holding a baby in his arms

Gymnastic Display Boys
These club-swinging aces are boys from Woodstock College in north London, England, training for their annual gymnastic display. Date: 1930s

A Couple on Carnaby St
A suitably dressed couple shopping on Carnaby Street, the hip centre of swinging London. Date: late 1960s

Serbian Villagers celebrate a traditional festival day, including a girl on a swing attached to a tree. One might also note they could potentially be celebrating a certain postcard collection at Mary

Jerviss Steam Yachts - Fairground Ride
Miles Jerviss Steam Yachts - Fairground Ride Date: circa 1939

A ginger-haired young lady golfer, completing her swing
Winsome - A ginger-haired young lady golfer, completing her swing having driven down the eighth hole. The tight short blue jumper and thin red and white stripe mini-skirt seem par for the course

Carved Ivory Figure - Travancore State Court - British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924. Date: 1924

St. Louis Worlds Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
St. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA Date: 1904

Christmas Card - Cupid, envelope and hearts
Joyous be your Christmastide, spake this young seraph swinging on a heart-sealed Christmas card envelope, avoiding the deadly fall of hearts which blighted his fairyland that yuletide... Date: 1907

Bristol Pegasus IX powered RCAF Blackburn B-6 Shark III, 525, with incorrect rudder serial, on the compass-swinging base at Brough in November 1938. Date: 1938

Sketch of a swinging plate anemometer 1849s
Sketch of a swinging plate anemometer. 1849. From Cayleys original notebook

Athletes. Swinging clubs. Photograph shows eight consecutive images of a man swinging clubs. Date c1881

Athletes. Swinging pick. Photograph shows eighteen consecutive images of a man swinging a pick. Date c1881

The original and only, Ray Burton the greatest & most novel mid-air juggler & balancer & the only swinging wire rifle shot in the world : three great acts in one. Date ca. 1892

The marvellous Bard, phenomenal trick swinging wire artist. Date ca. 1890

The Young Ones, rock and roll band, Walton, Essex
Three guitarists, a drummer and a vocalist who formed The Young Ones rock and roll band in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1963

Chimp with Tyre
A chimpanzee playing with a rubber tyre swinging on a rope. Date: 1960s

Stoke Bruerne Locks
A pair of narrow boat, converted for holiday cruises by Messrs. Street of Leighton Buzzard, swinging round a bend in the Grand Union Canal, near Linslade, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1960s

Sales Fashions
A middle aged woman looks in a shop window during the London Summer Sales. Is she wondering whether she can contend with the trendy dolly birds all around her? Date: late 1960s

Heigho! -- children swinging on a gate
Heigho, Heigho! Here we go, swinging to and fro! -- three children swinging on a gate. 19th century

Fete Federal de Gymnastique, Lausanne, Switzerland - 9th-13th July, 1909 Date: 1909

Hippies / Piccadilly 1969
HIPPIES Hippies gather at Piccadilly Circus and sit around on the pavement in the sun. Date: 1969

London Life front cover, 24 September 1966
Front cover of London Life, the short-lived but very groovy magazine which captured the style and spirit of sixties London briefly from 1964 to 1966

Two Edwardian children on a swing, Mid Wales
Two Edwardian children on a swing in a garden, Mid Wales. The swing has a safety bar at the front

London Life front cover featuring the model Ro
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

London Life front cover featuring Ungaro
Front cover by Brian Duffy of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Crocus Time by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small child sitting on a swing amid a dazzling display of spring crocii or crocus

Five boys swinging on a rope, having a great time

Studies of chimpanzees, including one swinging from a bar

On the Swing by Susan Beatrice Pearse
A little girl sails through the air on a tree swing, pointing her feet to the clouds, while her friend watches from the ground

An Orangutan. Pastel sketch by Raymond Sheppard

A Vervet Monkey swinging on a branch, holding a banana
A Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) swinging on a branch, holding a banana. Pastel drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Boy playing on a swing
A young boy playing on a swing. Pen and Ink with wash sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Piotrowiezowa, a heroine of the January Insurrection at Lodz
Patriotic Polish postcard depicting Piotrowiezowa (of the House of Michaels Fall), a heroine of the January Insurrection at Lodz - 15th February 1863 - fighting against the Russians

Poster depicting West African mahogany
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting West African mahogany in a forest, with small monkeys swinging on long creepers

German First World War Propaganda Poster
Propaganda postcard - Germany - First World War

Family on beach
A glamorous family on the beach - a blonde woman in a bikini sunbathes while a boy plays on a swing and a man in white bathing trunks looks on

May it Go With a Swing by Rojan
A Christmas Card wish on the front cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration of a circus scene with a guitar playing clown in the foreground

Tea Dance Paris 1926
A raucous tea dance, somewhere in the heart of swinging Paris

Corradinis Descent on Horseback, 1898
Illustration showing (Frank) Corradinis horse-riding act, which he displayed in Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen in 1898. Corradini

Swinging in Spain
El Columpio (= swing) in Andaluzia : most eyes except the dogs are on the young girl, hopeful or fearful that she will display her underwear

Swinging over Waves 1928
A happy young woman swings over the waves

A Meeting of Witches
A gaggle of witches & impish demons making merry

Beware of Trams
Beware of trams swinging out at corners

Naval Cadets on Model
Training naval cadets on a swinging model boat at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Children on swings, Sheffield
Children on the swings in a Sheffield playground

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