Listening Collection (page 63)

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton pickers child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds

Montenegrin soldiers singing warsongs
Montenegrin soldiers singing war songs outdoors, by the light of the moon

Music shop, Rentzes, Landskrona Sweden, 1959 Date: 1959

Street music: Organ grinder, 1872
A Civil War veteran turns his hand to organ grinding in New York, 1872. Date: 1872

Your silence is hard to bear
A bear listening to the bottom of the candlestick holder of the telephone, while the receiver is on the floor 1928

Woman wearing telephonic fancy dress
A woman wearing telephonic fancy dress. The telephone is balanced on her head, and her closely-fitting dress is made up of draped telephone cables. Date: circa 1895

Piano Girls
Four young ladies listening to a piano recital. Date: 1930s

Dog Listening to Radio
A dog with its feet up, listening to a radio on some headphones while reading a newspaper. Date: early 1930s

Street music: Flemish hurdy gurdy player
Flemish street scene showing a hurdy gurdy player performing for some peasants. Date: 17th century

Street music: hurdy gurdy player
A hurdy gurdy player performing for three poor boys in the street

Jack Sparrow listening to Jennies warning
Jack Sparrow sitting on an ivy branch, listening to Jennies warning about the cat. Date: 1937

Street music: 17th century hurdy gurdy player
Street scene showing a blind hurdy gurdy player performing in 17th century Holland. Date: 17th century

Intellectual child cynic by David Wilson
Humorous cartoon showing a small, rather grown-up and intellectual boy lying on his bed reading while the radio is on and saying to his mother, There goes that Childrens Hour

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Jazz music while you dine, 1929
A couple listen to jazz over a rather fraught dinner. The dog, cat and pet bird screech while the music blares out of the gramophone. Date: 1929

American Scouts listening to the radio
Five American Boy Scouts sit together listening to the radio, while one reads a magazine. An elderly lady sits in the corner of the room. 1942

Listening to the Banned by Kippa
Humorous illustration by Kippa featuring a group seated ready for after dinner evening entertainment, only to be shocked by a young woman reading aloud from a scandalous novel

Italian Pifferari, 1850
Roman piffarari perform by a wayside shine, 1850. Date: 1850

President Wilson addressing Congress in April 1917
President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) addressing the American Congress to recommend entering the war on the side of the Allies. Four days later the USA declared war on Germany

Listening to royal wedding ceremony broadcast, 1947
Crowds lining the processional route for the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh on 20 November 1947

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Piper in Brittany 1905
A blind piper plays on the street, with his hat hanging from his arm for coins. Date: 1905

Lady on the Phone
Lady Listening on Phone Date: 1925

Mother & Children C1875
Mother sits on a window seat and reads a story to her three children. Date: circa 1875

At a Book Exhibition
A group of anonymous people whose only claim to fame is that they were photographed by Henry Grant at some kind of book exhibition; they seem to be listening to someone... Date: 1950s

Listening Theatrephone
Ladies listening to the Theatrephone, piping in music from concert halls, drama from theatres, singing from opera houses... Date: 1892

Racial / Japan / Musicians
Three Japanese musicians playing stringed and percussion instruments, with three men listening in the background Date: late 19th century

Sixth form lecture theatre, Rosebery County School
6th form lecture theatre at Rosebery County School (probably the one at Epsom, Surrey). Date: 1968

Sixth form lecture theatre
View of a sixth form lecture theatre, with the male lecturer speaking to a full audience of students. Date: 1967

TIEPOLO: SAINT JEROME. Saint Jerome in the Desert Listening to the Angels. Pen and ink drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1730s

Bengal Fox (Vulpes bengalensis) adult, hunting, listening for prey on grassy steppe, Northern India, january

RADIO ADVERTISEMENT, 1956. American advertisement for a Motorola radio, 1956

Early video phone system, 1930. Historical artwork showing the two-way television communication system demonstrated by Bell Labs on Manhattan Island, New York City, USA, in 1930

Menwith Hill spy base, aerial image
Menwith Hill monitoring station, UK, aerial photograph. This base, near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, is operated by the US National Security Agency

Prairie dog (Cynomys sp.) standing alert on a log

Bat sonar
Bat echolocation system, computer artwork. The yellow circles show the series of high-pitched sounds that many bats emit to help them navigate when flying at night

Boy listening to a shell
MODEL RELEASED. Boy listening to a shell. He is 11 years old. When a shell is placed to the ear a sound is produced that is often compared to waves crashing in the sea

WW2 artillery detection equipment, 1944
World War II artillery detection equipment. Soviet soldier using sound detection equipment (left) to locate hidden German artillery positions during the Second World War (1939-1945)

Measuring noise, 1932
Measuring noise. Technician measuring noise levels using a portable device. Photographed at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK, in 1932

Testing an audio system, 1954
Testing an audio system. The thresholds of loudness and high frequency are being tested by projecting progressive plane sound waves at a listener

Headphones
MODEL RELEASED. Headphones. Computer artwork of the face of a man wearing headphones

Earphone in an ear
Earphone in place in an ear

Tin can telephone being used by two boys. The boy at left is speaking into one of the cans, and the sound waves are being transmitted along the string to the other can

Edison phonograph - 1889
Edison phonograph. Prominent Frenchmen including Jules Janssen, who made the first film recording of the transit of Venus, testing an Edison phonograph in April 1889

Woman listening, with a hand cupped to her ear

Therapy session
Therapy, conceptual artwork. The patient (left) is conveying his muddled thoughts to the therapist, who gives them order and structure

Hearing loss
MODEL RELEASED. Hearing loss. Elderly woman with her hand to her ear as she is straining to hear

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"Listening: A timeless art captured through various lenses" "In the depths of silence, The Ghost Story unfolds, as we listen with bated breath. " "Ears outstretched like a Basset Hound, embracing every sound that whispers in the air. " "Amidst smoke and contemplation, Che Guevara teaches us to listen to the revolution's melody. " "Chopin Concert Radziwill enchants our souls; listening becomes a symphony of emotions. " "Attentive as a German Shepherd, we learn the language of loyalty through active listening. " "My First Sermon echoes from 1863 to 1947; its words still resonate if only we would truly listen. " "Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim share secrets whispered between ears that truly listen. " "Border Collie dogs sitting on grass remind us that sometimes listening is best done in nature's embrace. " "A young German Shepherd sits on the grass, absorbing life's lessons through attentive listening. "As Doberman lies down in meadow tranquility, it reminds us to pause and listen to nature's whispers. " Through these diverse snapshots of art and canine companionship, we are reminded that true understanding begins with open ears and an attentive heart - for there is beauty in listening beyond mere words or melodies.