Laughing Collection (page 5)

Dancing The Big Apple, Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York, USA, 1938. The Big Apple was a modified square dance which was developed by students at the University of North Carolina

Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie at the Capital Radio Jazz Festival, Alexandra Palace, London, 1979
Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie at the Capital Radio Jazz Festival, Alexandra Palace, London, July 1979

Dizzy Gillespie meeting baby Gary Colfer at Knebworth, Hertfordshire, July 1982. Artist
Dizzy Gillespie meeting baby Gary Colfer at Knebworth, Hertfordshire, July 1982. The babys aunt and uncle Pat and Tony Shelvington kept the Lytton Arms pub in Old Knebworth

Count Basie with singer Dennis Rowland and drummer Butch Miles at the Capital Radio Jazz Festival, London, July 1979

Moving day in a captured village, France, World War I, 1916. During the Battle of the Somme

NUM official selling Coal magazine, South Yorkshire, 1959. Artist: Michael Walters
NUM official selling Coal magazine, South Yorkshire, 1959. Mr Les Sunders selling copies of the magazine to NUM and NACODS members on their way to Thurcroft colliery near Rotherham

Visual to promote a toy fair, 1963. Artist: Michael Walters
Visual to promote a toy fair, 1963. In a photograph taken for a Doncaster Advertising Agency to promote a toy fair, a child is seen looking towards a Christmas stocking full of toys

Children on a fairground ride, 2005

J the Jolly, 1903. Artist: John Hassall
J the Jolly, 1903. An initial letter J from a child alphabet. From An A.B.C. of Everyday People, by G. E. Farrow. [Dean & Son Limited, London, 1903]

He Chuckled With Delight, c1930. Artist: W Heath Robinson
He Chuckled With Delight, c1930. An illustration from The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. From Hans Andersens Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

Ivan IV, c1601, (1907). Ivan IV Vasilyevich (1530 -1584) known as Ivan the Terrible, the Grand Prince of Moscow (1533-1547) and Tsar of All the Russias (1547-1584)

How Six Travelled Through the World, 1901. Artist: Edward Henry Wehnert
How Six Travelled Through the World, 1901. How Six Made Their Way in the World is a fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm. From Grimms Household Stories collected by the Brothers Grimm

Mr. Jorrockss Bath, 1854. Artist: John Leech
Mr. Jorrockss Bath, 1854. From Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrockss Hunt, by Robert Smith Surtees. [Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854]

King Alfred in the Danish Camp, c1884. Artist: Thomas Strong Seccombe
King Alfred in the Danish Camp, c1884. Alfred was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871-899 AD. Here, Alfred, in disguise, sings in the camp of Guthrum the Danish king

Bravery in civvies : laughs with the King and Queen, 1920s or 1930s (1935). From King Emperors Jubilee, by F. G. H. Salusbury [Daily Express Publications, London, 1935]

Honest Jack Falstaff, c20th century. Artist: William John Wainwright
Honest Jack Falstaff, c20th century. From The Studio Volume 65. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1915]

Scotland Yard, c1900. An illustration for Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens. From Hard Times and Sketches by Boz, Volume XI, by Charles Dickens. [Blackwood, Le Bas & Co. London, c1900]

Passengers on a Nile cruise, 1936
Passengers on a Nile cruise, Egypt, 1936. From a private album of a passenger who undertook a cruise on the S.S. Arandora Star, which began 9th April, 1936

The Duke of York (later George VI) at The Duke of Yorks Boys Camp, 1932. (1936)
The Duke of York (later King George VI) at The Duke of Yorks Boys Camp, Southwold, Suffolk, August 1932. From The Pageant of Kingship cigarette card series, issued by Peter Jackson Ltd. 1937

King George V of Great Britain and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, 1913 (1951). A print from 100 Years in Pictures, A panorama of History in the Making, text by DC Somervell, Odhams press Limited

Hotei, 16th century (1886). From a picture by Kano Motonobu, engraved in the E-hon te-kagami. Hotei is one of the personages of the popular group of divinities known by the title of Shichi-fuku-jin

The Three Laughers, 16th century (1886). From a picture by Kano Motonobu, engraved in the Wa-kan mei-hitsu gwa-yei. Kano School

Four blind men placed in a ring to fight a large pig, c14th-15th century (1882-1884). Artist: Spex
Four blind men placed in a ring to fight a large pig, c14th-15th century (1882-1884). A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume I, F Roy editor, Saint-Antoine, 1882-1884

Trials of Bachelorhood. Artist: American Stereoscopic Company
Trials of Bachelorhood. Stereoscopic card detail

Pride of the Spirit, 1900. Illustration for The Life and Death of Mr Badman by John Bunyan. A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1900

Laughing Audience, 18th century. Artist: Thomas Clerk
Laughing Audience, 18th century. Cartoon showing the inside of a theatre and the reactions of different parts of the audience to the play

The Laughing Cavalier, 1624 (1901). A print from The Magazine of Art, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1901

Janet Gaynor (1906-1984), American actress, 20th century. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for

Young Kyosai Sketching the Severed Head, 1898. Artist: Kawanabe Kyosai
Young Kyosai Sketching the Severed Head, 1898.Plate taken from The Studio magazine, volume 15, no 67 (London, 15th October 1898)

A street performer with a monkey amusing the crowd, Kobe, Japan, 1896. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
A street performer with a monkey amusing the crowd, Kobe, Japan, 1896. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Mother and daughter, early 20th century

Children skipping in the Grand Place, Bruges, Belgium, 1922. Artist: FC Davis
Children skipping in the Grand Place, Bruges, Belgium, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

A group of summer paddlers in the Serpentine, London, 1926-1927. From Wonderful London, volume II, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, published by Amalgamated Press (London, 1926-1927)

People of the Shilluk (Chollo), Sudan, Africa, 1936. Artist: Major R Whitbread
People of the Shilluk (Chollo), Sudan, Africa, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Gipsies, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

A Scene from Thackerays Vanity Fair, 1923. Artist: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
A Scene from Thackerays Vanity Fair, 1923. Published in The Outline of Literature, by John Drinkwater, London, 1923

Dolly Varden, (1923). Artist: WA Mansell & Co
Dolly Varden, (1923). Published in The Outline of Literature, by John Drinkwater, London, 1923

Advertisment for Tit-Bits magazine, 20th century. Tit-Bits was a British weekly magazine and was founded by George Newnes in 1881

In Bridewell beating hemp, plate IV of The Harlots Progress, 1833. Artist:s Davenport
In Bridewell beating hemp, plate IV of The Harlots Progress, 1833. Early 19th century version of a scene from Hogarths serieds of 1732; the harlot is now beating hemp in Bridewell Prison

British soldiers, Chakrata, India, 1917

An Amusing Story, 1877, (1938). Artist: Giovanni Battista Quadrone
An Amusing Story, 1877, (1938). From A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the collection of Frederick John Nettleford, Volume IV, by C. Reginald Grundy and F. Gordon Roe. [Emrose and Sons Ltd

The Laughing Faun, 2nd century BC. Faun in rouge antique marble, from an original of the late hellenistic period. From Hadrians Villa, Tivoli

Swallowing canes in a ceremonial ritual, New Guinea, 1936. Artist: Wide World Photos
Swallowing canes in a ceremonial ritual, New Guinea, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Those Laugh Who Win, 1885. Artist: Frank Dadd
Those Laugh Who Win, 1885. An engraving from the Illustrated London News, (London, 1885)

Indian Sikh athlete, Berlin Olympics, 1936. A print from Olympia 1936, Die Olympischen Spiele 1936, Volume II, Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Hamburg, 1936

Douglass Montgomery, Canadian actor, 1934-1935. Montgomery began his acting career in Hollywood in the 1930s before moving to Britain in the 1940s. Taken from Meet the Film Stars, by Seton Margrave

Jean Harlow, American actress, 1934-1935. Known as the Platinum Blonde, Jean Harlow was one of Hollywoods biggest stars and foremost sex symbols of the 1930s

French soldiers seeing the funny side of falling in the mud, World War I, 1916, (1926)

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