Racquet Collection (#6)

Edwardian couple playing tennis -- the man runs to hit the ball. Date: early 1900s

Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Brussels, Belgium
Scene at a Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1900

Three children playing shuttlecock on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement, Solar Tip Shoes
Advertisement for Solar Tip Shoes, made by John Mundell & Co of Philadelphia, USA. Showing girls and boys playing in their genuine Solar Tip footwear

Cover design, School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA. Depicting a young woman with her pet dog

Tennis couple, 1929
A couple dressed in fashionable tennis whites, pictured in the extensive gardens of an idyllic looking home. Date: 1929

Five girls with tea tray in a garden
Five girls with a tea tray in a garden on a summers day. A badminton net is set up on the lawn in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Blue-crowned racquet tail, Prioniturus discurus.. Handcolored steel engraving by Joseph Kidd from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Browns Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Edinburgh

Tennis party, c. 1880s
A family group, with some of the party dressed in sporting attire. The woman on the left holds a tennis racquet. Date: c.1880sA

Victorian family group with tennis racquet
A rather serious-looking Victorian family group of a couple with two children and a tennis racquet. Date: circa 1880s

Firefighters playing tennis during a break, London
Firefighters playing tennis outside their fire station during a break, London

Anthony Wilding and Arthur Balfour at Nice, 1914
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion pictured in Nice in 1914 about to partner Mr Arthur Balfour, British conservative M.P

The Princes Club Racquet Courts, 1857
The Princes Club Racquet Courts at Hans Place, Belgrave Square, London. A private gentlemans club, designed by Mr. B. Burton, consisting of three courts, one of which is pictured here

Summer sport on the Continent
Supplement cover of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, reporting on the sporting possibilities on the Continent. A young woman in tennis costume points across the Channel while her male

Business card design, woman playing tennis
Business card design, depicting a woman playing tennis. Date: 20th century

Two women at a tennis club, with a tennis court behind them

Woman at a tennis club, holding a racquet

Men and women taking tea in a garden
Three men and three women taking tea in a garden. A little dog looks up expectantly. The two younger women have tennis racquets. C.1900

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

Carnival float, The Typists Dream, showing young women in holiday attire, as if on a beach, rather than sitting in an office typing

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

Children Seated Hillside Racquet 19th century
Artokoloro

ALTHEA GIBSON (1927-2003). American tennis champion. Photograph by Fred Palumbo, 1956

SILHOUETTE, c1925. Debutantes Miss Cecil Smiddy and Miss Pearl Smiddy in silhouette. Photograph, c1925

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THE QUEENs BENCH PRISON: 1. Entrance Gateway to Governors House; 2. Courtyard and Governors House; 3. Entrance from Southwark Bridge road; 4. Front of Prison and Racquet Court; 5

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Princes Racquet Club Courts, Hans Place, Belgrave Square

Frederick the Great and his Grandnephew (coloured engraving)
XPH312411 Frederick the Great and his Grandnephew (coloured engraving) by German School, (18th century); Staatliche Schlosser und Garten, Potsdam

BADMINTON, c1936. Two badminton players. Photograph, c1936

Japan - Geisha girl holding a badminton racquet (about to hit a ball) Date: circa 1904

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

Miss Helen Wills playing in her match at the Beckenham Tennis Tournament. 1927

An action shot of Miss Heine at the Beckenham Tennis Tournament. 1927

A period lawn tennis match at Lullingstone Park near Eynsford, Kent. 1938

Italy, Builders Son
Carlo CarrA

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

Fast-paced lifestyle, conceptual image
Fast-paced lifestyle. Conceptual image of a teenage boy running on a hamster wheel, representing a fast-paced modern teenage lifestyle

Firefighters playing tennis during a break, London
Firefighters playing tennis outside their fire station during a break, London

Poster advertising a toy sale. Silkscreen, c1940
POSTER: TOYS, c1940. Poster advertising a toy sale. Silkscreen, c1940

American tennis champion. Photographed in the 1940s
ALICE MARBLE (1913-1990). American tennis champion. Photographed in the 1940s

Wynstrode tennis final at Wynstrode - presentation of cup, 1934 George Garland collection West Sussex Record Office ref no: Garland N9832

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

India - Pune (Poona) - The Gymkhana (a public place for athletic games - " a ball house" is the direct translation from the Hindi) Date: circa 1907

Tatler front cover, Wimbledon 1962
Front cover of The Tatler, reporting on Wimbledon Tennis Championship for 1962 and particularly tennis fashions. The girl clearing the net in style is wearing a tennis tunic by tennis fashion leading

Family & Beach Cricket
A family pose for a photograph on the beach at Weston-super-Mare in front of the Grand Pier with all their beach toys: cricket bat and stumps, a racquet and ball

Art Nouveau Tennis
An art nouveau girl plays tennis with an art nouveau racquet Date: circa 1905

Eng and Chang, Siamese twins, playing shuttlecock
Eng and Chang (circa 1814-1874), Siamese twins at the age of 18, playing shuttlecock. circa 1832

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