Tamborine Collection

Various musical instruments

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Harem Women
Harem women from Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey

Albanian dancers - Turkey Date: circa 1900

The Ovaltineys - promotional act for Ovaltine - Russian show
The Ovaltineys or League of Ovaltineys was a childrens club developed in the 1930s to promote the sale of Ovaltine brand drink in the United Kingdom - A Russian show Date: circa 1930s

Syria - Punishment of a servant (2 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid - she is tied up and her upper-body clothes are removed. Date: circa 1910s

Italian Dancer with white leather boots and tamborine Date: 1920s

Syria - Punishment of a servant (1 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid. Date: circa 1910s

Egypt - Marco the Comedian Monkey
Marco the Comedian Monkey - obviously a well-known performing monkey on the streets of Cairo, Egypt. The captive baboon sits astride a young donkey

Syrian Bedouin Women - Costume series (3 / 3)
Costume styles of five Bedouin women. Only one is veiled, another plays the tamborine and another wears expansive golden circle jewellery as a headdress. Date: circa 1910s

A dancing bear and musician
A musician singing and playing a tamborine and his dancing bear at Constantinople, Turkey

Egypt - Arab Musicians on board a Dahabeah - River Nile
Egypt - Arab Musicians on board a Dahabeah (also spelled dahabeeyah, dahabiah, dahabiya, dahabiyah and dhahabiyya, as well as dahabiyeh and dahabieh) - a passenger boat used on the River Nile

Egyptian music girl with tamborine, 1887
Egyptian music girl in Joppa(Jaffa, Israel), with tamborine. Date: 1887

The Tamborine Dancer (Nina Constantinova) (" Danseuse au Tambourin" ) Date: 1924

Women in fancy dress collecting for charity
Three women in fancy dress collecting for The Romford Cottage Hospital, Essex. Date: circa 1933

High level Dancers - Egyptian Harem - Almeh
Almeh - a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Arab Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily. Date: circa 1907

Exotic Turkish Woman of the Harem Date: circa 1904

Italian Rustic Types - Southern Italy / Sicily Date: circa 1910

Egyptian Dancing Girl with tamborine Date: circa 1920s

Italy - Pretty Italian girl playing tamborine and having a dance Date: circa 1901

Algeria - Pretty Dancing girl
A Pretty Moorish dancing girl from Algeria. Date: 1901

Street music: musicians at home, 1867
Street musicians of Paris leave their slum home and head out to work with their instruments. Date: 1867

A dancing girl - Constantinople, Turkey
A beautiful young dancing girl from Constantinople, Turkey, holding a tamborine

Middle Eastern Dervish Group
Rifai Dervishes - a Dervish order founded by Shaykh Sayyid Ahmad ar-Rifai (1119-1182). Traditional Dervish order found with a marked prescence in Syria, Egypt, Kosovo and Albania

Harem ladies in oriental costumes
Turkish models pose in the roles of ladies of the Harem in oriental costumes and holding musical instruments

A Constantinople Harem Girl
A Constantinople dancing girl in a rather revealing blouse

Izmir (Smyrna) - Street Entertainer
A street entertainer with tamborine and trick-performing monkey. Basically a beggar using a monkey to do tricks and gain a few coins

Lesguinka Dance - Russian Cossack Dance
Lesguinka Dance - Traditional Russian Cossack Dance

Egyptian Dancing Girls, some seated, some playing musical instruments, one smoking. The dancer is accompanied by a pipe player and a drummer

Grace Huntley - Panto
Miss Grace huntely in various roles (Sinbad, Aladdin, The Bonnie Fishwife) in Sinbad at The Royal Theatre

French Theatre / La Fille
La Fille A character from Vielle by marguerite de Valois, Reine de Navarre

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