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227 photos and 2 illustrations tagged croquet, from 21 members of Flickr Commons.

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• chromolithography
• sport
• game
• women
• men
• florida
• games
• chromolith
• tennis
• girl
• children
• lawn
• people
• environmentalprotectionagency
• documerica
• usnationalarchives
• bldigital
• publicdomain
• vol0
• mechanicalcurator
• beach
• playing
• france
• libraryofcongress

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• UBC Library Digitization Centre 200 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 3 photos & illustrations
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 3 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 2 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• British Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America 1 photo / illustration
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 1 photo / illustration
• Nasjonalbiblioteket 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration

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Ladies playing croquet

from Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County

• Cindy at enclos*ure said:

  They are actually playing roque, a hard sand or clay variant of croquet, which was extremely popular in the early 20th century.

Le cricket

from UBC Library Digitization Centre

• alma wad said:

  This game is called "croquet " and not cricket .

Cranbrook (private residence 1859-1900, residence of the NSW Governor 1900-1917, now Cranbrook School), Bellevue Hill (NSW)

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Andy Brill said:

  The imposing gatehouse: srnsw:

• beachcomber australia said:

  Thanks State Records for the huge size. That has to be the NSW Governor, Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson, GCB, GCMG (1843 – 1910)(NSW Governor 1902-09), his wife Florence Alice Stewart, and a daughter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rawson - see illustrations. Also adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rawson-sir-harry-holdsworth-8162

• Timothy188 said:

  Those were the days Photo ! ☺

• Richard lewis said:

  great capture

• beachcomber australia said:

  From the wikipedia and adb articles (linked above) - Florence, the wife, 'a kind gentle-voiced motherly grey-haired woman' died at sea in 1905, and daughter Alice took over her mother's duties. I wonder if this is Alice in the photo? The Alice Rawson School for Mothers was named after her - So, the photo is between 1902 and 1905.