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  • Morning and evening amusements, at Merlin's Mechanical Museum, No. 11, Princes Street, Hannover Square.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the baby incubators building (right) on the Pike (an avenue of amusements), thronging with visitors. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Pike (an avenue of amusements): costumed performers, including men and women on camels and an elephant, posing in a group. Photograph, 1904.
  • Southwark Fair, a renowned place of amusement, with a variety of theatrical establishments. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Southwark Fair, a renowned place of amusement, with a variety of theatrical establishments. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Malvolio speaks to Olivia in a room, to the amusement of Maria. Stipple engraving by T. Ryder after J.H. Ramberg.
  • [Leaflet (1863?) advertising a variety bill at the Criterion Hall of Amusement, Leicester Square, London with 7 foot tall Polish Giantess, Countess Lodoiska headline act].
  • A small boy places his grandfather's wig and hat on his younger sister; the grandfather looks on with amusement. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1824.
  • A beardless young man asks his hair-dresser to shave his beard: another hair-dresser and his client look on in amusement. Coloured wood engraving after John Leech.
  • A woman trader at the Halles market in Paris defends her conduct in conversation with an official as another woman looks on in amusement. Lithograph by N. Charlet, 1825.
  • A man has to carry his overweight wife in a wheelbarrow up a steep hill to the amusement of onlookers: he compares her to rubbish. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • One boy is holding his mouth open as another aims to throw a cherry for him to catch, two girls look on in amusement. Engraving by H. Bourne after W. Mulready.
  • A young woman attempts to get hold of a letter which an old man is reading out to the apparent amusement of the other men. Aquatint by Domenico Landini after John Burnet.
  • Seronet : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : P.A, chat, blogs, tribulles... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • Seronet : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : P.A, chat, blogs, tribulles... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • Two musicians play their instruments in a doorway to amuse the passers-by. Engraving by J.G. Wille after Dietricy.
  • Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster / [Published by R. Wilkinson].
  • Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster / [Published by R. Wilkinson].
  • Seronet : l'espace solidaire entre séropositifs : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : chat, forums, blogs, tribulles, P.A... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • Seronet : l'espace solidaire entre séropositifs : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : chat, forums, blogs, tribulles, P.A... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • Seronet : l'espace solidaire entre séropositifs : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : chat, forums, blogs, tribulles, P.A... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • Seronet : l'espace solidaire entre séropositifs : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : chat, forums, blogs, tribulles, P.A... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • Seronet : l'espace solidaire entre séropositifs : se rencontrer, s'informer, s'amuser : chat, forums, blogs, tribulles, P.A... à vous de choisir / AIDES.
  • A soldier's family rest in a small cove, his wife amuses the children while he sleeps. Engraving by W. Greatbach, 1830, after R. Edmonstone.
  • Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.
  • Above, Lo Xuegu(?), a Chinese painter, shown seated in front of his artist's materials, playing a lute-like instrument and singing, while his dog dances; below, an attempt to photograph a Niō (Buddhist diety), who is watched with amusement by a fellow Niō. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, ca. 1870.
  • A boy grinds a barrel organ as two small girls dance to amuse another child who is leaning against pillows in a chair. Engraving by W. Finden after T. Webster.
  • A young woman in her bed chamber trying a wig on her bottom for effect: her maid-servant holds a mirror for her and sniggers with amusement; a cat arches its back in fright and a dog dives for cover under the young woman's corset which is lying on the floor. Etching, 1778.