play recreation

Queen and son in Palace playground

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Queen and Prince of Sikkim playing outdoors, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

Pl. 3. The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard

A churchyard with Tom Idle sprawled on a tomb playing hustle-cap with a one-eyed man wearing a striped cap and a ragged boot-black. A younger boy scratches his head in puzzlement as he watches the play, and a b... More

Kyō, Okumura Masanobu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man and a woman playing a game, possibly go, on a kimono with a ruled pattern. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the ... More

[Playing with a puppet] - Public domain drawing

Print shows kabuki actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I in the role of a puppeteer, standing, full-length, facing right, holding a puppet of the courtesan Matsuyama above his head. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Descrip... More

Ane otōto no isakai - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a young woman and a young boy playing with toys.

Mari arasoi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows two girls in a courtyard, chasing a ball. Public domain photograph of 18th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Minazuki, Toyomasa Ishikawa - Public domain image related to music prf...

Print shows several boys playing around a pole with a platform on top on which are flowers. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the s... More

Gokugetsu, Toyomasa Ishikawa - Public domain drawing

Print shows a winter tea party that has been interrupted; a boy has been dragged away by three boys, and a girl, sitting with the tea service, is upset at the disruption. Outside the house, the trees and ground... More

Shigemasa Kitao - Ichimura uzaemon no kidōmaru

Print shows Ichimura Uzaemon as the bandit Kidōmaru riding a hobby horse. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Hosoban Nishikie. ... More

Yatsushi kusakari sanro, Toyomasa Ishikawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two boys riding on the back of a cow, one is playing a flute; another boy is holding a rope tied to the cow. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speci... More

Ishikawa Toyomasa - Yayoi - Public domain drawing

Print shows children playing, two carrying a palanquin, outside the entrance to a house where, within, a man and a woman are eating. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo... More

Kubihiki, Shigemasa Kitao - Public domain drawing

Print shows two boys watching two boys seated with their feet pushing against the other's and with a long strip of cloth looped over their heads in a game of tug-of-war. Title and other descriptive information ... More

Jūgo ōshō - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Wang Xiang as a child outdoors with two fish on a frozen river in a snow covered landscape.

Go, print by Kiyonaga Torii - Public domain drawing

Print shows several children fighting during a game of "go." Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Karako asobi : Chinese... More

Commanders engaged at sea, Thomas Rowlandson

It appears from this print, which in the coloured editions is judiciously tinted to make it resemble a drawing, that the inactivity of our commanders at sea was attracting popular censure. In the plate we find ... More

People playing chess - Public domain portrait painting

Information from book record: Has a three-panel fore-edge painting of gentlemen at a game of chess. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Children feeding chickens P.W. Tomkins sculpt. late pupil of Bartolozz...

Two girls with chickens and chicks. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poppen o fuku musume - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a young woman, half-length portrait, turned to the left, blowing into a toy. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... More

Jūdanme, Forty Seven Rōnin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a woman watching two children play with puppets, reenacting the revenge of the 47 Rōnin.

Outlines of figures, landscape, & cattle, etched by T. Rowlandson, for...

13 small scenes on one page, various subjects. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satiric... More

Fukubiki, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women standing, holding small boxes for a lottery game, with a man kneeling between them. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-... More

Hahaoya ni umanori suru yōji - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman on her hands and knees with a child climbing or riding on her back. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: hori... More

Gyōja Bushō, Shunman Kubo - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman, wearing kimono with a tiger design identifying her as Gyōja Bushō, holding a toy on a string, playing with a cat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored E... More

More miseries. Having a newly-rolled gravel walk..

More miseries - your guests proceed to tear up the new gravel walk you have just made Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, kn... More

The life of William Cobbett, written by himself. 1st plate

This series of bitter satirical prints against the grand radical of the day are parodies on the autobiographical sketch in his own Register, published during this year. They need little further explanation than... More

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川 春扇) - Kishibe no hagi

Print shows three women and two children playing on the banks of a river or lake. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Nishikie. ... More

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川 春扇) - Hotaru gari

Print shows three women and two boys next to a small shrine along the shore, one of the women and one of boys have nets with which they are trying to catch fireflies; there is a small bridge leading to a small ... More

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川 春扇) - Hotaru gari

Print shows three women and two children at the edge of a pond, near a small shrine, catching fireflies. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-0... More

Maki Bokusen - Harukoma - Public domain drawing

Print shows a person with a hobby horse. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japanese... More

Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat with three kittens, playing]

Printed with number in upper right corner: 9. Paper watermarked at bottom center: in Basel. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

[Domestic cat standing on a block and a puppy with its front paws on t...

Printed with number in upper right corner: 7. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

[Domestic cat with two kittens, one playing with a ball of string]

Printed with number in upper right corner: 5. Paper watermarked at bottom center: in Basel. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat eating while two kittens play] / CF-.

Signed on lower right "CF-" Printed with number in upper right corner: 10. Paper watermarked at bottom right: LHEU[...].

[Domestic cat on a stool playing with three kittens]

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Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat with three kittens, playing] / Brodtman...

Stamped at bottom center: im Museum zu Basel. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Domestic cat with two kittens inspecting something on the ground, a s...

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[Domestic cat napping with three playful kittens and a saucer on the r...

Signed on lower right "C.F." Printed with number in upper right corner: 6. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

[Domestic cat on a stool playing with three kittens] / C.F.

Signed on lower right "C.F." Printed with number in upper right corner: 4.

Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat eating while two kittens play]

Printed with number in upper right corner: 10. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

[Two men, one on his hands and knees crawling, the other is sitting on...

Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms ... More

"Ha, ha, te, he" - navigation in a tub

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Chasing butterflies in the daisy field

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The Dellwood short line railroad, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Libra...

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Section crew of the Dellwood short line

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American farmer. Cottage scenes, Stereoscope Card

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I'se so tired working, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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The snow birds, holding the fort

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The wrecking of the daily news

Waiting for the tea to draw - Drawing. Public domain image.

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"Be dead cat, Tom", Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Storming Fort Lucius, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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The tilt, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collec...

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No surrender - Fort Lucius, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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"We're all of us a-going riding"

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Off for a sail, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Buds and blossoms, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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The doll's tea party, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Playing school, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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I see you, Daddy, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Navigation in a tub, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Now upon my life Angelia that is [illegible] No buttons again, well [i...

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The snow birds, holding the fort

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"We're all of us a-going riding"

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See-saw, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Collect...

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The wreck of the daily news

Celebrating the great and glorious Fourth of July

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Giving the dollies their daily lesson

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Children drawing on the wall, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Giving the dollies their daily lesson

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Section crew of the Dellwood short line

reverse side of stereoscopic card

Children's tea party, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Li...

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The drive, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Library Colle...

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The play flower garden, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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The little playmates, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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The play flower garden, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Coach and driver, Stereoscope Card.19th century. Boston Public Librar...

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Celebrating the great and glorious Fourth of July

reverse side of stereoscopic card

Childhood days, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Playing school, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Homer Winslow. Blindman's buff. Wood engraving periodical illustration

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Fall games--The apple-bee - Public domain scan / engraving

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[Two Chinese boys playing with spinning tops]

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 49. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Playing at soldiers in the Crimea. The tent

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Astonishing a young one, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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Blind beggar, Sterescope Card, Boston Public Library

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[Seated children, children playing, standing girl]

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Devotion Playground, Brookline Mass photograph collection

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Kid's playground A. Bruith 66 ; W. Harring, chro. ; after Bruith

Print shows a calf and a kid in a playful confrontation, with a cow, other goats, and ducks nearby. 4105 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower left: A. Bruith 66. Signed on stone on lower right: W. H... More

Homer Winslow. Swinging in a birch tree

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Pippa : competition of the soldiers

No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

George Washington in his boyhood

George Washington leading other boys with swords lifted in mock charge as another group of boys are advancing from background. The United States, p. 281.

The happy days of childhood - Engraving, Public domain image

C12035 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Wagner, M. V., copyr... More

Every body's friend. The happy little boy Kuriger, 71

Print shows a young boy playing with a toy horse, cannon, and soldier. B8354 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed and dated on stone on lower right. Publication date based on copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp,... More

Normal School, Christchurch, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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Normal School - Christchurch. From the album: N.Z. Scenery, New Zeala...

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Normal School, Christchurch, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

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[Toby Tyler riding]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

"Sketch for Toby Tyler" handwritten notation on mat. Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Play - Print, Library of Congress collection

C6803 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Piot, A[dolphe], arti... More

Homer Winslow. "Snap-the-whip". Wood engraving periodical illustration

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