Tennis Collection (page 14)

Print Users Yearbook -- tennis match
Print Users Yearbook -- people playing a tennis match in a large garden, with a tray of drinks ready for when they take a break. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Carters womens sports underwear 1934
Freedom for action... and every curve in its proper place. Date: 1934

Courtship scene by E. H. Shepherd
Duo-colour illustration by E.H. Shepherd showing a young man in a blazer with a young woman with an enormous parasol. In the background, their friends can be seen playing a game of tennis. 1921

1920s tennis fashion illustration
A colour illustration of a lady posed with a tennis racquet

Young girl playing tennis
Colour illustration of a young girl playing tennis, c.1880

Joan Fry (1906 - 1985), from the Tennis Stars In Action series by H. Coller. In 1925 Joan Fry caused a sensation by reaching the final of the Ladies Singles at Wimbledon

The Royal family watching the mens singles final
Captivated by the game, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth, Sir Louis Greig and King George VI at Wimbledon. This was King Georges first visit since he competed in the mens doubles with Sir Louis

Advert for Lilley & Skinner tennis shoes 1928
Seletion of tennis shoes for women. 1928

Deputies to Tennis Court
The deputies of the troisieme etat (third estate) are locked out of their meeting hall, so they adjourn to a tennis court, conveniently close at hand. Date: 20 June 1789

Advert for Lillywhites tennis clothing 1937
White tennis wear for 1937. Tailored tennis dresses of white pique or heavy linen. Date: 1937

Advert for Lillywhites sports clothing 1937
Lillywhites clothes for every sport. Date: 1937

London Bedford Park
Bedford Park, at Turnham Green in west London, is the citys first garden suburb : Tower House and the lawn-tennis grounds. Date: 1881

Pan by Laurie Tayler
A scene with a group of people ranging from a golfer, a tennis player and bathers all being attracted and led by the music that pan is playing on his saxophone. Date: 7th April 1926

Davis Cup Players
The Davis Cup Tennis Tournament in Paris, France : (left to right) : John VAN RYN Wilmer ALLISON, Jean BOROTRA, and Henri COCHET. Date: late 1920s

Stoker / Tennis Player
H. J. Stoker, newly retired tennis player, proudly showing off the many cup and trophies he has won over the years in many tennis tournaments. Date: 12 December 1929

Ladies Wimbledon, action shot
Miss E. Colyer makes one of her famous leaps across the court. Date: 4th July 1925

Daudet Photo
ALPHONSE DAUDET French writer, photographed with his daughter Edmee while his sons play tennis in their garden at Champrosay, a Paris suburb, in 1890. Date: 1840 - 1897

Tennis Balls in Fence
Tennis balls lodged in a wire fence during a tennis game, England. Date: 1960s

Jean-Joseph Mounier
JEAN-JOSEPH MOUNIER French statesman who instigated the Tennis Court Oath. Date: 1758 - 1806

Tennis at Bishopsgate
A tennis match between two unnamed players at Bishopsgate, London, England, attracts a large crowd. Date: early 1930s

Jamaica, West Indies - The Titchfield Hotel, Port Antonio Date: circa 1920s

Schoolboy suggest a game of ping pong to W G Grace
" I should like to play you at ping pong" !! A young schoolboy suggests a sensible choice of sporting contest when faced with the colossus of the cricketing world, Dr W G Grace

Tennis Humour - Postcard
I can see you do try to keep your end up! Date: circa 1930s

Three American Sporty Types
Three Queens Three American sporty girls, one holding a tennis racket - peep over a garden fence. Date: circa 1910s

Tennis Courts - Country Club, Springfield, Massachusetts Date: circa 1910s

Design for book cover, In the Summer Holidays
Design for a book cover entitled In the Summer Holidays by Jennett Humphreys. Watercolour and gouache on copy paper. Blackie, London; Silver Studio. 1897

Tennis player with trophy c. 1910

Table Tennis Players

Pixies playing a kind of tennis

Coal Man
People You See. From Teddy Bear (11 April 1964)

King Gustav & Guests
GUSTAV V, KING OF SWEDEN (1912-1950), chatting to a gathering of ladies and gentlemen after a tennis match. Date: 1858 - 1950

Lord Birkenhead playing tennis with Lili de Alvarez
Frederick Edwin Smith, Lord Birkenhead (1872 - 1930), British lawyer, statesman and well-known society figure, pictured playing mixed doubles with the Spanish ladies tennis player

Tennis ground, Homburg (i. e. Bad Homburg vor der Hohe), Hess
Tennis ground, Homburg (i.e. Bad Homburg vor der Hohe), Hesse-Nassau, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Lawn tennis. Date c1887 Sept. 17

Roland & Rivkin tennis dress advertisement, 1927
Advertisement for freer tennis frocks by Roland and Rivkin, who consider such a cut de rigeur in circles where the game is played keenly. Date: 1927

Bystander front cover - Lawn tennis number - Helen Wills Moo
Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998), American tennis player and eight times winner of the Ladies Singles at Wimbledon, pictured in 1927, where she was tipped to win - and she did

Giving a Hand at Wimbledon by H. M. Bateman
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a number of contributors to the success of the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. Date: 1927

Suzanne Lenglen 1923

Robinsons Barley Water advertisement, 1927
Advertisement for Robinsons patent barley water with lemon, refreshing tennis players since the 1920s. Date: 1927

Tennis court on board the Empress of Britain
A full-sized tennis court on board the Canadian Pacific liner, the Empress of Britain, departing from Southampton on a world cruise for four and a half months

Wedding of Bunny Austin and Phyllis Konstam
The wedding of Henry Wilfred Bunny Austin (1906 - 2000), British tennis player and Phyllis Konstam (1907 - 1976), British actress who were married on 14 November 1931 at Hampstead Parish Church

Silhouette of a woman playing tennis

Silhouette of a fashionable woman on her travels. A man in the background is lifting a bag of golf clubs

Silhouette of a tennis player
Full-length silhouette of a tennis player with two tennis racquets tucked under his arm. 1926

W. T. Tilden and protege
William ( Bill ) Tatem Tilden (1893 - 1953), American tennis player, known as Big Bill. Dominated international tennis in the first half of the 1920s; won Wimbledon three times

Advert for Kestos lingerie 1934
Advert for a brassiere for sport activities. Kestos A women can concertrate on her game and win Date: 1934

Fashionable Holiday makers back from tennis
The Story of the Match - " It was a Famous Victory!" A couple return to the beach to join their friends and recount their recent match. Date: 1923

Kingham, Oxfordshire - The Fete at the Tennis Courts Date: 1915

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