ClipArt ETC
Apollo playing lyre.

Apollo

Apollo playing lyre.

Musician playing a double flute

Double flute

Musician playing a double flute

Roman Bacchhante playing castanets

Roman Bacchhante

Roman Bacchhante playing castanets

Egyptian priestess playing a sistrum.

Egyptian Priestess

Egyptian priestess playing a sistrum.

The opossum is nocturnal and arboreal. At night it searches for insects, birds, eggs, fruit, etc. It uses its tail for climbing and when attacked it feigns death, giving rise to the origin of the common phrase, playing 'possum.

Opossum

The opossum is nocturnal and arboreal. At night it searches for insects, birds, eggs, fruit, etc. It…

Father Time and young boy playing double flute.

Father Time

Father Time and young boy playing double flute.

Three men playing horn over dead goat

Three men

Three men playing horn over dead goat

Three girls playing with flowers

Girls playing

Three girls playing with flowers

Girl playing with doll on chair.

Girl playing with doll

Girl playing with doll on chair.

Boy and girl playing with doll

Children playing with doll

Boy and girl playing with doll

Girl giving her doll a bath.

Girl playing with doll

Girl giving her doll a bath.

Girl giving her doll a ride on a dog.

Girl playing with doll

Girl giving her doll a ride on a dog.

Girl sitting with her doll.

Girl playing with doll

Girl sitting with her doll.

Girl with her doll and doll carriage.

Girl playing with doll

Girl with her doll and doll carriage.

Girl playing with doll and dog.

Girl playing with doll

Girl playing with doll and dog.

Boys playing ball.

Boys playing ball

Boys playing ball.

Straightforward front stroke.

Polo

Straightforward front stroke.

Straightforward back stroke.

Polo

Straightforward back stroke.

Nearside front stroke.

Polo

Nearside front stroke.

Kittens playing in basket.

Kittens Playing

Kittens playing in basket.

Children playing by a fireplace.

Children

Children playing by a fireplace.

Boy playing with toy boat in a tub of water.

Boy

Boy playing with toy boat in a tub of water.

Children playing with doll.

Children

Children playing with doll.

Children playing with doll.

Children

Children playing with doll.

Two small children playing on seesaw.

Seesaw

Two small children playing on seesaw.

There was a young lady of Bute; Who was playing on a silver-gilt lute; She played several jigs; To her uncle's white pigs; That amusing young lady of Bute.

Edward Lear

There was a young lady of Bute; Who was playing on a silver-gilt lute; She played several jigs; To her…

Children building card houses.

Children playing

Children building card houses.

Children playing baseball.

Baseball game

Children playing baseball.

Adults playing lawn tennis near a house.

Tennis

Adults playing lawn tennis near a house.

Men playing tug-of-war.

Tug-of-War

Men playing tug-of-war.

The batter and catcher playing baseball.

Baseball game

The batter and catcher playing baseball.

Pirates of the eighteenth century at their cave.

Pirates

Pirates of the eighteenth century at their cave.

Children playing in old village with parents.

Children Playing

Children playing in old village with parents.

The Florentine Singer playing an old guitar.

The Florentine Singer

The Florentine Singer playing an old guitar.

"Soldiers playing 'catch the pig.' Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Ga., Thursday, November 27th, 1862. While the loyal citizens of the North were eating their turkeys the Federal soldiers in the South were also celebrating their Thanksgiving. We illustrate the amusement indulged in at Fort Pulaski, Ga. The grand attraction of the day, however, was th <em>fete</em> given by the officers of the Forty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, Colonel Barton, and Company G, Third Rhode Island Regiment."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Catching the Pig

"Soldiers playing 'catch the pig.' Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Ga., Thursday, November…

"Soldiers aparticipating in a wheelbarrow race. Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Ga., Thursday, November 27th, 1862. While the loyal citizens of the North were eating their turkeys the Federal soldiers in the South were also celebrating their Thanksgiving. We illustrate the amusement indulged in at Fort Pulaski, Ga. The grand attraction of the day, however, was th <em>fete</em> given by the officers of the Forty-eighth Regiment, New York Volunteers, Colonel Barton, and Company G, Third Rhode Island Regiment."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Wheelbarrow Race

"Soldiers aparticipating in a wheelbarrow race. Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Ga., Thursday,…

The Lilliputian band plays for Gulliver after he is pardoned from a conviction.

Band at Giant's Feet

The Lilliputian band plays for Gulliver after he is pardoned from a conviction.

School building in Lake Alfred, with children playing in front.

School

School building in Lake Alfred, with children playing in front.

A man playing golf, with his wife and young caddy.

Golfers

A man playing golf, with his wife and young caddy.

Noted for its voracious appetite, the flute-playing cassican has been known to eat small birds.

Flute-Playing Cassican

Noted for its voracious appetite, the flute-playing cassican has been known to eat small birds.

"General Banks's Division recrossing the Potomac from Williamsport, Md., to attack the Confederate army under General Jackson--the band of the Forty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers playing the National Airs on the Virginia shore. The retreat of General Banks was, under the circumstances of the case, a great military necessity, and admirably conducted; but, directly the pressure was removed, he returned to the Valley to drive out the invader. Our illustration is of the impressive scene of recrossing the Potomac on the mission of vengeance and patriotism."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Recrossing the Potomac

"General Banks's Division recrossing the Potomac from Williamsport, Md., to attack the Confederate army…

"Chess is the most purely intellectual of all games of skill, the origin of which has been much disputed, but probably arose in India 5,000 years ago, and thence spread through Persia and Arabia, to Europe and America. The game has undergone many modifications during its diffusion throughout the world, but retains marked traces of its Oriental origin. The game is played by two persons on a board which consists of 64 squares, arranged in 8 rows of 8 squares each, alternately black and white. Each player has two sets of pieces of opposite colors of 16 men each, and of various powers, according to their rank."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Chess Board

"Chess is the most purely intellectual of all games of skill, the origin of which has been much disputed,…

"A single muscle rarely or never contracts alone, but always in harmony with a number of other muscles. Even the simplest movement we can make requres the combined action of several muscles to carry it out. If the movement is at all difficult, such as playing on the piano or riding on the bicycle, the different muscles must contract in a certain order and with a certain strength and rapidity." — Blaisedell, 1904

Superficial Muscles of the Body

"A single muscle rarely or never contracts alone, but always in harmony with a number of other muscles.…

Women playing a lyre.

Greek border

Women playing a lyre.

Scene where the children are with the Storks, from "The Storks."

Children with the Storks

Scene where the children are with the Storks, from "The Storks."

Baby playing with her brother

Baby playing

Baby playing with her brother

Boys playing their whistles.

Boys with Whistles

Boys playing their whistles.

A child swinging

Swinging

A child swinging

Children playing with their toys.

Children with Toys

Children playing with their toys.

"The thongs or bands of leather, which were tied round the hands of boxers, in order to render their blows more powerful. The cestus was used by boxers in the earliest times, and is mentioned in he Iliad; but in the heroic times it consisted merely of thongs of leather, and differed from the cestos used in later times in the public games, which was a most formidable weapon, being frequently covered with knots and nails, and loaded with lead and iron." &mdash; Smith, 1873

Cestus

"The thongs or bands of leather, which were tied round the hands of boxers, in order to render their…

Children playing in a meadow.

Meadow

Children playing in a meadow.

Boys playing in a field.

Boys Playing

Boys playing in a field.

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat and Frog

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat and Frog

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat and Frog

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat playing with a frog.

Cat and Frog

Cat playing with a frog.

Six kittens playing

Six Cats

Six kittens playing

"A rider in the Roman games, who generally rode two horses at the same time, sitting on them without a saddle, and vaulting upon either of them at is pleasure. The annexed woodcut shows three figures of desultores." &mdash; Smith, 1873.

Desultor

"A rider in the Roman games, who generally rode two horses at the same time, sitting on them without…

Children in a boat playing with swans.

Children and Swans

Children in a boat playing with swans.

A girl playing tea time with her dolls

Tea Time

A girl playing tea time with her dolls