Tennis Collection (#39)

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

Rock Garden Teahouse - Sutton Hall, Yorkshire
The Rock Garden, Tea House and tennis courts at Sutton Hall, Sutton, Thirsk, Yorkshire Date: circa 1909

Buuny Tennis
A clever rabbit playing tennis. (Bunny Austin perhaps, ha ha!). Date: early 1930s

Forces Tennis Balls
A Lillywhites girl shows off the surplus of tennis balls donated by Dunlop, Slazenger etc. following an appeal due to a shortage within the Armed Forces! Date: 28 May 1942

Tennis Illustrated - Comic Postcard - A Weak Return A Policeman aids a totally sozzled young gentleman to return to his abode into the rather shocked care of the housemaid. Date: circa 1903

Lady tennis player in red blazer. Artist: Anon. Art deco style image of lady tennis player posing at the net Date: circa 1924

Tennis Illustrated - Comic Postcard - Our Advantage A romantic liason between the local Bobby (Definitely off the Beat!) and a parlour maid

Alice Marble U. S. A champion 1937
Alice Marble (1913 - 1990) World No. 1 American tennis player, who won 18 Grand Slam championships between (1936 1940). Date: 1937

Tennis Girl 1940S
Anyone for tennis? A fashionable young woman, with her sleeves rolled up, ready for a game of tennis! Date: 1940s

Wimbledon Queue
A long queue for tickets for the Wimbledon tennis tournament, with only a Hot Dog stand to stave off the hunger and boredom! Date: 1979

Tennis Poser
A fashionable young woman strikes a pose as she attempts to serve, during a game of tennis. Date: 1940s

Edwardian children playing tennis. Artist: Hilda Dix Sandford. Edwardian boys and girls playing A Game of Tennis Date: circa 1908

Two ladies in outfits by Madeleine et Madeleine
Two fashionable ladies wearing daytime outfits by Madeleine et Madeleine. On the left, a white three-piece tennis outfit with patterned bands

Two ladies in summer outfits by Doucet and Jenny
Two ladies in fashionable summer outfits, standing near a tennis court. On the left, a 3/4 length light yellow and black patterned crepe de chine dress with black rosette at the hip

Teddy Tinling tennis outfit, 1962
A tailored tennis suit in cotton pique with a drawstring waist and crossed racquets motif embroidered in blue on the shirt top designed by tennis fashion guru, Teddy Tinling. Date: 1962

Tennis time at Harrods
Tennis Time at the Mans Shop, Harrods. Clothing advertisement for white flannels, tennis shirts, tailored shorts, blazers etc. Date: 1936

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

Future King George VI at Wimbledon
A superb photograph of the future King George VI (1895-1952) (when Duke of York) pictured at Wimbledon in 1926 (ten years before the start of his reign), where he played doubles with his mentor

Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent with her children
The widowed Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent poses with her daughter, Princess Alexandra, for an informal photograph taken by her eldest son, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent at Bailiffscourt, Climping

Middle Class Prize Wives
Woman, women, wife, housewife Mr Punchs Four Prize Middle Class Wives. The wife as cook, intellectual companion, clerk and tennis partner! Date: 1889

Tennis - Serving
SERVING Date: early 20th century

Girls Fashions 1929
Tennis dress with box pleats; travelling coat, scarf & hat; high-waisted frock with gathered skirt, D-B redingote; coat with over-stitching detail & a dress with side pleats Date: 1929

Tennis at Country House
Watching a game from the terrace of an English country house Date: 1888

Henry & Tennis Balls
Henry V receives a box of tennis balls from the French Dauphin

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

View of small garden and tennis court amongst skyscraper apartment blocks in densely populated area of city, Hong Kong, China

GILLETTE RAZOR AD, 1939. American magazine advertisement, 1939, for Thin Gillette Blades and Gillette Blue Blades

Playing tennis, thermogram
Playing tennis. Thermogram of a person serving whilst playing tennis. The colours show variation in temperature. The scale runs from white (warmest) through red, yellow

TENNIS COURT ROMANCE, 1925. Net Profit. Tennis court romance on a Life cover, 1925

VANITY FAIR, 1932. A 1932 cover of Vanity Fair with a caricature of American tennis player, Helen Wills

KHNOPFF: MEMOIRES, 1889. Memoires. Pastel by Fernand Khnopff, 1889

SIDESHOW POSTER, c1975. American sideshow poster featuring a four-legged woman and a headless woman, c1975

SILENT FILM STILL: SPORTS. The Prince and Betty, 1919

Advert for Dunlop tennis balls, 1928, Paris Date: 1928

Miss Dorothea Douglass
Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878 - 1960), English tennis player and seven time winner of the ladies singles title at Wimbledon between 1903 and 1914

Helen Wills and Edith Cross in action
Miss Helen Wills Moody and Miss Edith Cross, American tennis doubles partners pictured in action on court at Wimbledon in 1929

Duke of York playing tennis
The Duke of York (later King George VI) enjoying his favourite game- tennis- in Jamaica

William T Tilden, the American champion of Wimbledon in 1920, 1921 and 1930

Miss Helen Wills, American Tennis Player and Artist
MISS HELEN WILLS in 1927, American tennis player and artist, seen here in mufti, ie ordinary clothes rather than her tennis gear

Mrs Kitty Godfree, English tennis player
A depiction of Mrs Kitty Godfree (nee McKane), English tennis player, by a rival player, the American Helen Wills. Both of them were appearing at Wimbledon. Godfree has just finished a backhand drive

Gladys Cooper trouser skirted
British actress, Gladys Cooper (1888 - 1971), pictured modelling a trouser skirt, divided skirt or culottes for tennis. The look was also pioneered by Spanish tennis player Lili de Alvarez in 1931

We Take Off Our Beret by Mel
A series of caricatures by the cartoonist Mel showing various well-known tennis stars playing at Wimbledon in 1931. These include Lili D Alvarez who sported a pair of culottes on court

Fashions for Tennis
Tennis fashions for 1931 from Peter Robinson of Oxford Street, featuring washing silk dresses which look far too nice to play tennis in to be honest

Victorian schoolboy ready for the holidays
A Victorian schoolboy, smoking a small cigar, sits on a pile of suitcases on the platform of a railway station, ready for the long school holidays

Senorita de Alvarez and her divided trousers
The Spanish tennis player, Lili d Alvarez, pictured playing on court at Wimbledon wearing a pair of divided trousers - or culottes - designed by Schiaparelli

Alice Marble, 1939 Wimbledon champion
Alice Marble (1913-1990), American tennis player, who was the first woman to win both the US Open and Wimbledon singles titles in the same year, as well as the ladies doubles and mixed doubles

Sirdar Nihal Singh
Indian tennis player Sirdar Nihal Singh who played in the 1909 Wimbledon lawn tennis championship

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