FLO4563167: Gentleman fencer disarming his opponent on the Carte or Second Thrust, after parrying with the Prime Parade. Handcolored copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Mr. Domenico Angelo's The School of Fencing, London, 1787., Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4897962: Dec. 12, 1953 - Preparing For The Bermuda Conference: Preparations are being made at Mid Ocean Club, Bermuda, in readiness for the Western Big Three Conference, between Sir Winston Churchill, President Eisenhower and M. Laniel, the French Premier, which opens on Friday / Bridgeman Images
FLO4568609: Portrait of actor William Smith in the role of Richard III (play by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). He is a fencing guard, wearing panties and stockings, puffy sleeves and bare head. Smith led his career from 1753 to 1788 in London and was renowned for his delicate and sensitive interpretations of a refined gentleman. Engraving in “” Bell's Shakespeare”” by John Bell, London (England, 1776 to 1785. / Bridgeman Images
LCP463577: Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia, printed by Herline & Co., 1856 (litho tinted with three stones) , Beaulieu, Emile F. (fl.1856) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136243: Doing it 'just like the builders do', a hive of industry going on in the new children's playground opened on the blitz site of St. Luke's Church, Peckham, London. The playground has been opened by the Camberwell Playgrounds Committee, who have spent over ï¾£50 fencing the site and providing tools for the kids to use. Each night at 5.30pm when the playground is opened by one of the supervisors, the children clamour to be first so that they can have their favourite tool. A bucket of cement is handed out and with sand from the play pit and bricks from the site, the work in progress commences. Some of the boys prefer to play soldiers with guns which have been given. 13th May 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images