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  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
  • Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.
  • Poster advertising the entertainment of the Davenport Brothers.
  • The twelth night entertainment in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.
  • Crowds of people gathered at an entertainment at Basford, Staffordshire, including music and a balloon. Coloured wood engraving, 1859.
  • A physician prescribing entertainment as a cure for a young woman's nervous illness. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-E. Jacque.
  • A Christmas entertainment, presented in sign language for the deaf and dumb, at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Almshouses in St. John's Wood Marylebone. Poster advertising an entertainment to be given to raise funds on 30th October, 1837.
  • The vegetarian : serio-comico-semi sentimental song / written and composed by Henry Walker ; sung by Mr. Howard Paul in the entertainment "Patchwork.".
  • [Newspaper cutting advertising an entertainment organised by Albert Smith of views of a journey to Mont Blanc (painted by William Beverley) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • [Newspaper cutting advertising an entertainment organised by Albert Smith of views of a journey to Mont Blanc (painted by William Beverley) at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London].
  • Calcutta, India: King George V and Queen Mary (then the Prince and Princess of Wales), watching entertainment given in their honour at the pandal (function hall). Photograph, 1906.
  • [Illustrated ticket to an entertainment of Henry Smith, vocalist, and the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Dated May 1855].
  • [Illustrated ticket to an entertainment of Henry Smith, vocalist, and the Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Dated May 1855].
  • Calcutta, India: King George V and Queen Mary (then the Prince and Princess of Wales), (seated in the background), with musicians and spectators, watching entertainment given in their honour at the pandal (function hall). Photograph, 1906.
  • Hospital of Our Lady. Paul's work, rebuilt in 1619, on the site of an ancient religious foundation. About the year 1479. Thomas Spence, Bishop of Aberdeen, founded a hospital there, for the reception and entertainment of twelve poor men.
  • Last week but one, Wednesday, March 15, and Friday, 17, 1826 : M. Henry will have the honour of repeating his third annual entertainment of "Table Talk", under the title of Odd Sayings and Queer Doings, introductory of his novel and astonishing illusions metamorphoses, prestiges, &c. &c.
  • An equestrian entertainment in the Boboli gardens, Florence, celebrating the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany and Vittoria della Rovere, 1637: the carriage viewed against the Pitti Palace, the arena, and bird's eye views of the formations. Etching by S. Della Bella after A. Ricci and F. Gambrai.
  • Above, a Kabuki play scene, showing a woman washing the feet of another, watched by a man; below left, the changeling 'Jizō' (Kshitigarbha); below right, an 'entertainment woman' (geisha?) standing on a jetty on the Sumida river at Mukōjima. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with bottom right design by Mōsai (Yoshitora), ca. 1870.
  • The Falklands '82 Event : "Tenth anniversary" airshow & family fun day out (full of shows, displays, entertainment, information and relaxation) : Sunday 13th september 1992, the Herts Showground, Redbourn (just off Junction 9 of the M1) : Gates open from 9.00 am : raising funds for The Airborne Forces Initiative (A.B.I), The British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association ... / The '82 Event.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: Christmas entertainments. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Johnson, 1888.
  • [Undated handbill advertising an unparalleled programme of holiday entertainments at Alexandra Palace on Boxing Day].
  • [Undated handbill advertising an unparalleled programme of holiday entertainments at Alexandra Palace on Boxing Day].
  • Six figures passing the time with various entertainments. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, 1771, after G.M. Kraus.
  • Bartholomew fair in London represented as a place where crowds of people watch entertainments inspired by the devil, and indulge in drunkenness and fighting; demons incite them to crime. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1832.
  • On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre, Comedy is hanged, Tragedy is stabbed, and Sheridan the playwright lies dead drunk as the theatre is given over to animal entertainments. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.
  • Indian travelling entertainers with animals. Gouache painting.
  • Britain entertains America / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Britain entertains America / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Old Harry, a street entertainer. Line engraving by R. Graves.