Children's Games

This is a bag of marbles, of various colours, played with by the donor on the early 20th century in Cleeve, Oxfordshire.

Ansikte rött. Näsa bred och platt. Huvudklädseln mönstrad i vitt, rött och svart; ändarna av den hänga ned långt över ansiktet. Höjd: 21 cm. Bredd: 19 cm. [ocr]; Mask, demale kolan (tamil).; Sri Lanka; …

Chinese celebration, France, during World War I. This photograph shows four men on stilts entertaining a crowd. One of the men has a stick, another is dressed as an old man with a long grey beard and whiskers, and a third is dressed in a long robe. A band…

In full form, on a swing. In the background painted decoration. A print on paper (8.9x6.3) on a company carton (10.4x6.4), below. printing: Franz Lewinsky. On the back of the carton decorative, Art Nouveau print with a coat of arms with the initial: FL. B…

Lettering: Between school hours. C.E. Perugini pinx. W. Greatbach sculpt. From the picture in the possession of the publishers.

Two of Jacob Maris’s daughters, probably Tine and Henriëtte, are blowing bubbles. Maris often used his children as models for these atmospheric sketches, which were intended for sale. These watercolours were never meant as portraits; the idea was to creat…

As a young man, our father, T. P. "Tom" Murphy, of Limerick, Ireland, enjoyed playing team sports and was a member of CBS Limerick Senior Schools rugby team of 1932 and 1933. He rowed successfully with Limerick Boat Club. He later switched to t…

Rowing. Open-air swimming bath, Pontypridd South Wales.

BSM i bowling. Maj 1956.

Hide and Seek (German); OPp.-Cover with illustration (two children, Dora and Dani, at the game of hiding); 31 illustrations: 11 double-sided (with printed text) and 10 folding images with 1 hinged segment, under which another picture is hidden.

Lettering: Hide and seek. Swaine. Photochromotype.; Hide and Seek. Party scene; a young couple hide behind a screen while two women search for them. The room is decorated with garlands of holly and bunches of mistletoe hang from the walls and ceiling. Pho…

Soldiers and WAACs watching French children playing in the sand, in France, during World War I. This photograph brings together men, women and children from several countries, as they relax in their deckchairs and watch some French children build a large …

Lettering: The humorous diversion of the country play at blindmans buff. Engraved from an original painting in Vauxhall Gardens. B. Cole. Engraved for the New Universal Magazine 1753.

This canvas forms the pair to a painting in the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Blind Man’s Buff (Le Colin-Maillard). Both were in the collection of Baron Saint-Julien in Paris in whose posthumous sale they were sold in 1784 for 500 livres. It would seem th…

Bildunterschrift: "Turn round three times, and catch whom you may."

Lancrets specialitet var lekfulla scener där välklädda sällskap ur tidens samhällselit roade sig. Den här typen av motiv hade i början av 1700-talet lanserats av Watteau och gick under beteckningen fêtes galantes – galanta fester. Lancret hade varit elev …

Ett kärl med en päronformad kropp, modellerad kant, tre ögleformade handtag under kanten och en ringförsedd botten. Gråbrun yta, slätad. Den har ett snöre knuten runt den övre delen av kärlet och det är fyllt till bredden med ledknotor eller astragali (sp…

Anna-Lisa Martinoff (Karbow) med docka.

Systrarna Sally (gift Palmén) och Ilma (gift de la Chapelle) Skog.

Lettering: The doctors hobby.

The signature of the artist (‘Emlo’?) who drew the scene on the front of this postcard appears below the teddy bear astride the toy horse on the left. Walking ahead is a small boy riding a hobby horse. A portrait of a mounted British soldier hangs on the …

Nära övre R. Karapanas (lat. 30 gr, long. 71 gr) i Uaupés-Caquetá-regionen, N.V. Amazonas-området, Sydamerika.; övre R. Karapanas i Uapes- Caqueta- omr. NV Amazonas, Colombia [[Haga]]; Ur generalkatalogen: Benflöjt med tre sidohål. Längd: 16,5 cm. Lokal o…

Lettering: Contrary winds. From a painting by T. Webster, R.A.

Two hoops of a crinoline. Consisting of steel bands spun with white cotton. The narrow hoop is tied together with a steel lace (half of a corset lace?). The wide hoop has two metal connecting clamps.

Lettering: The flying machine from Edinburgh in ine day, perform'd by Moggy Mackensie at the Thistle and Crown. Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. ...

Photo shows: children choir entertaining.; The information about the photograph was provided by the creator of the collection, Mr. Dan Hadani; File Record; …

The school choir in the village. Strumica. Before 1920

Israeli children listen to the Bedouin playing his flute. The dry weather cased the nomands from the Negev Desert to nove north with their flock.; המידע אודות התצלום נמסר על ידי יוצר האוסף, מר דן הדני; File Record

Part of the documentary ensemble: Mirimonde1