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Vintage illustrations showcasing playful scenes with characters from classic stories and 19th-century trade cards. A blend of humor and fantasy in traditional styles.

Elves parachuting with the aid of thistledown. Date: 1917

Fairy tales / image album / Pellerin / Épinal imaging, 1893 - 1894 Empty albuma stroke for an album with 60 prints from the Pellerin (Épinal) fund, published with English texts. On the cover an image of the booty cat. paper. band: cardboard. band: linen (material) tales and fairy tales: Puss in boots

Dr. Morses, compound syrup of yellow dock foo, the great blood purifier. Cures all humors. , Boys, Horses, Patent medicines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Portada de la revista humorística ¡Cu-Cut!, editada en Barcelona, marzo de 1905.

Three acrobats in action, Anonymous, After Gerardus Josephus Xavery, 1728 print While an Acbroat with two burning tores glides down his belly down his belly towards Harlequin, a fool is about to throw a glass to the duo. Amsterdam paper engraving acrobat ~ circus. torch. types in 'commedia dell'arte': Harlequin

Les Sobres Sotz (The Sober Fools), a farce, showing a fool, Le Badin, in yellow and green motley. Date: 16th century

Little Lily's Alphabet: Dolly, Alphabet - Little Lilly

Advertisement for Black & White Scotch Whisky, featuring a fine silhouette of Peter Peebles dining with Mr Alan Fairford and Mr Fairford Elder from 'Red Gauntlet' by Sir Walter Scott. Date: 1927

El hombre y las fieras. Cacerías y pescas primitivas. Caza del zorro en las estepas del Asia central con la ayuda de halcones. Cromo de Chocolates Eduardo Pi. Años 1944. Author: Joan Llaverias Labro.

Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi, 1896 Ubu Roi

The human pattern , Dancers, Dance. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Partitura musical de la zarzuela El asombro de Damasco, de Pablo Luna. Año 1917.

China Postcard 'John Bull as Cyrano de Bergerac', Alfaro Reijding, c. 1900 - c. 1918 Postcard in black and yellow with two figures on the edge of a forest. Netherlands paper printing political caricatures and satires. personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc. China. Great Britain

Program for theater performance 'Mirages, Drame and Cinq Actes, and Prose' at the Théâtre Libre, Henri Gabriel Ibels, 1892 print View of theater and orchestra bin from the balcony, seen over the shoulder of a spectator. At the top left the names of the characters and accompanying actors of the fifth performance from the 1892-1893 season. paper group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage. performance Paris

SEMANARIO ESPAÑA-PORTADA HUMORISTICA 1916.

Vier dwergen naar Het Dwergentooneel.Four slides with dwarfs in a wooden mount with handle. Extremely left: a female dwarf in red dress from the front. To the right: a widely standing dwarf with hat grabs to his saber. To the right of this: Dwarf with hat, saber and pointed mustache makes a pass. Extreme right: a female dwarf with hat and a handkerchief in her hand makes a dance pass. All except the rightmost copied to the dwarling tongue.

The human pattern , Dancers, Dance. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Puck Magazine: ""Jingo Jim"", Puck Magazine

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves The thieves hide in jars. Date: 1899

Mikado, or The Town of Titipu #2, Gilbert & Sullivan

Portada de la revista infantil Alegría. Tarrasa, octubre de 1927.

Girl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, and a man playing a pipe with an animal head while dancing on stilts, 13th century,.

Marigny Theater / Love Bubble

Color poster advertising the children's pantomime 'Forty Thieves' at Drury Lane, featuring characters, stage details, and decorative typography, created before 1899.

The Pied Piper leads the children away from the town

Jolly festive illustration by Norman Keene showing an aviator in an aeroplane greeting Father Christmas and his sleigh mid-air. Date: 1930

THE BIG TRAIL (1930), directed by RAOUL WALSH.

Adrià Gual / Portada de la revista "El Teatro Català", Año II, Nº 55, 15 marzo 1913. Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

T for Treasure Island, Tony Sarge - Alphabet

Magazine clipping - How Houdini Did It

'The New Submarine Danger' "They'll be torpedoin' us if we stick 'ere much longer, Bill" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring his popular characters Old Bill, and Bert Date: 1916

Elmer Weise, Juggling Marionette, c 1937 Juggling Marionette

Graf Goluchowski , Count Agenor the older Goluchowski as a cancer title page of Die Bomb , Corggio, caricaturist

She went to the barber's To buy him a wig And when she came back He was dancing a jig Date: 1890s

EL COYOTE.

Madam Ada Castello, equestrian performer in the Barnum & Bailey circus. chromolithograph ca. 1900.

True Cowboy, Wild West

Oh, the captain wont mind , Military personnel, Motorcycles, Motorcycle sidecars, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Duel, Storybook Kids

Three Musketeers, Book Cover

PELICULA : MARCELINO PAN Y VINO , 1954. BASADA EN EL CUENTO HOMONIMO DE JOSE MARIA SANCHEZ SILVA. DIRECTOR : LADISLAO VAJDA. ACTORES : PABLITO CALVO , RAFAEL RIVELLES.

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Bagdad.

Inferno, Italian for 'Hell' (Dante). Film Poster from 1921

Two men engaged in a mock duel as part of the festivities. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.

"I must focus or I will die!" The perils of playing on the roulette wheel at the Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco. One must focus on playing smart or suffer the perils of misfortune... circa 1910

Napoleon's Last Charge, Sheet Music - E. T. Paul

Life for the Tsar: drama-opera in eight scenes. ca. 1908

F for Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, Tony Sarge - Alphabet

Japanese hand coloured woodcut. The Image shows a big circus, in which a number of people perform acts of entertainment. These include trick riding, animal taming and acrobatics. Created in 1871.

K for King Cole, Tony Sarge - Alphabet

PEDRO PARAMO (1967), directed by CARLOS VELO.

Puck Magazine: Gambling with Death, Puck Magazine

Puck Magazine: Too Far Gone, John!, Puck Magazine

Fight against demons. In a hilly landscape, a number of ridden milkers perform a fight against a few demons, behind the hilltops, three warriors watch; At the top right and bottom right are strips with text. There are two wide edges in gray and in beige around the show; The show has been recorded.

Bliżej Kultury unknown

RAMAYANA: THE LEGEND OF PRINCE RAMA (1993), directed by RAM MOHAN, KOICHI SASKI and YUGO SAKO.

HISTORIA DEL CINE: FESTIVAL DE SITGES. Poster of the International Fantasy Film Festival of Sitges (Catalonia) in 1989.

O for Old Mother Goose, Tony Sarge - Alphabet

The chap book , Clowns, Reading, Periodicals

Adrià Gual / Cartel. "Escola Catalana d'Art Dramatic. Trilogia de l'Amor. Teatre Goya". Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

The very dwarf game, 1887 - 1891 print. gameboard Board game with a dozen dwarfs with large the number seven on a bag of gold pieces. Around the figures 2-12 and all kinds of busy dwarfs. In the middle of the title on a banner that is worn by three dwarfs. In the middle of the rules. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing board-games. board-games of chance. little people

Theatre Toyal Drury Lane Programme. Philipp William May; English, 1864-1903. Date: 1900. Dimensions: 297 × 215 mm. Pen and black ink, over blue pencil, on buff wove board. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

P for Punch and Judy, Tony Sarge - Alphabet

A satirical view of the superior air of a quaker in a city street. Date: 1867

Two figures stand with heavy weights , Operas & operettas, Costumes, Allen A. Brown Collection

Partitura musical del tango "Entre dos fuegos", de R. Alberto López Buchardo. Editado por Breyer Hermanos, de Buenos Aires, 1918.

Hee! Haw! Hee! Haw! If you don't come to Wildwood the laugh will be on you , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Portrait of Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill - Wild West

The days of auld lang syne by Ian MacLaren , Books

Tell-Tale Hill & Dale Book Cover, Children's Literature

The highland fling - a bonnie shot for a canny scot .

Liberty Boys of ""76"": The Liberty Boys at Sag Harbor, Victorian Children's Literature - Liberty Boys

Golf de Fon-Romeu, Leonetto Capiello

Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi; Petits Poèmes amorphes, 1898 Ubu Roi; Petits Poèmes amorphes

The Sign of the Cross, 1932, is a pre-Code epic film, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and based on the original 1895 play by Wilson Barrett. Both play and film have a strong resemblance to the novel Quo Vadis. The film stars Fredric March, Elissa Landi and Claudette Colbert.

Catalunya. Fiestas y tradiciones populares. Festividad de San Pedro. La noche anterior se celebra la verbena encendiendo hogueras. Grabado coloreado del siglo XIX.

How To Assemble Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz

Charge of the Light Brigade: March, Sheet Music - E. T. Paul

Hansel y Gretel y la bruja malvada, en un sello hungarés, hacía 1959.

Faust, the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

MALTA - 2001: A stamp printed by Malta shows Carnival MALTA - CIRCA 2001: A stamp printed by Malta shows Carnival, series, circa 2001 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 3898139

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