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Two clowns with cockerels on a New Year cardTwo clowns separating fighting cockerels on a New Year card, with a comic verse. circa 1890s
Two musical clowns on a Christmas cardTwo musical clowns shaking hands on a Christmas card -- May Mirth and Music join hands this Christmastide. Date: circa 1890s
Three clowns with a ladder on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Clown stealing goose on a Christmas cardClown stealing a goose from an angry woman on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Clown on a triangular Christmas cardClown bending down to write a greeting on a triangular Christmas card with an ornate border. Date: circa 1890s
Clown with paper hoop on a greetings cardClown grinning through a paper hoop on a greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Black clown playing concertina on a Christmas cardBlack clown playing the concertina on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Four clowns on a Christmas and New Year card, performing in the circus ring. Date: circa 1890s
Acrobatic clown on a Christmas cardAcrobatic clown in a colourful costume on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Clown with food and drink on a Christmas and New Year card, with Harlequin and Columbine on either side of him (they are stealing from Pantalones table on the other side of the windows)
Four laughing clowns on a Christmas card, with seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s
Clown falling from a donkey on a greetings card, with accompanying verse. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Clown with head through paper hoop on a greetings cardClown with his head through a paper hoop on a greetings card. circa 1890s
Handwriting of Tito Gobbi on a Christmas cardHandwriting of Tito Gobbi (1913-1984), Italian operatic baritone, inside a Christmas card, dated 1957. Date: 1950s
Tito Gobbi as Falstaff on a Christmas cardTito Gobbi (1913-1984), Italian operatic baritone, in the role of Falstaff (in the opera by Verdi) on a Christmas card. (1 of 2) Date: 1950s
Victorian Scrap, clown in red and yellow costume. circa 1880s
Sammys Bowery Follies, New York City, USASammys Bowery Follies, Bowery, New York City, USA, showing the performers grouped together on stage. Date: 1944
Cartoon, A nouveau riche man, WW1Cartoon, a nouveau riche man, who has made his money from the war, tells a showgirl that he arrived in Paris in clogs, and he won t blush to admit it
Victorian Scrap, circus ring with performers and animals. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, Performing Circus Horse. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, acrobat woman with flags. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, oriental performer with fan circa 1880s
Harry LauderSir Harry Lauder (1870-1950) Scottish music hall entertainer, pictured in caricature by Simpson. Date: 1929
Three Japanese chorus girls talk backstage. All three are wearing elaborate costumes. Date: 1932
Advert for Columbian Trio Concert Company, Ohio, USAAdvertisement on a postcard for the Columbian Trio Concert Company of West Salem, Ohio, USA, offering instrumental and vocal music. Date: 1910
Wallace Beery, American film actorWallace Fitzgerald Beery (1885-1949), American film actor. Date: circa 1920s
Wallace Beery, American actor, with favourite planeWallace Fitzgerald Beery (1885-1949), American actor, with his favourite plane, a Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket. Date: circa 1935
Cissie Loftus - Scottish actress and singerCecilia " Cissie" or " Cissy" Loftus (1876-1943), Scottish actress, singer, mimic, vaudevillian, and music hall performer. 1890
Two Sani women, Yunnan Province, south west ChinaTwo young Sani women of Yunnan Province, south west China, playing Chinese lutes. Date: 1953
Wayang puppet theatre of Bali, IndonesiaWayang puppet theatre and gamelan musicians of Bali, Indonesia. Date: circa 1920s
Two film stars in Paris Plaisirs magazine: Madge Bellamy (Fox Film) and Agnes Petersen, as seen in the film Scheherazade (Alliance Cinematographique Europeene). Date: circa 1928
Cover design, Paris Plaisirs no. 81 for March 1929, depicting a female performer in a multi-coloured, tight-fitting costume. Date: 1929
Woman in two poses in Paris PlaisirsWoman in two poses wearing a skimpy costume in Paris Plaisirs magazine, photos by Sobol. Date: circa 1920s
Actress Freda Wyn doing handstand in cat costumeFreda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), doing a handstand on stage in her cat costume during rehearsals for a pantomime, Puss in Boots
Actress Freda Wyn relaxing in cat costume during a pantomimeFreda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), taking a cigarette break in her cat costume during rehearsals for a pantomime, Puss in Boots
Actress Freda Wyn in cat costume for a pantomimeFreda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), posing in her cat costume for a pantomime, Puss in Boots, in which she appeared with the comic actor Jimmy Edwards at Streatham Hill
Actress Freda Wyn doing cat makeup for a pantomimeFreda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), making herself up as a cat for a pantomime, Puss in Boots, in which she appeared with the comic actor Jimmy Edwards
The juggler at the Chateau d Eau, Paris.. Handcolored aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from A Tour through Paris, William Sams, London, 1825
Juggler performing to music, 9th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834
Concert in the War Zone for soldiers and others, France, WW1Concert in the War Zone for the boys in khaki and blue. British soldiers, nurses and others listen to an open air concert in the shade of trees, somewhere in France. Date: 1915
Gabrielle Ray, English actress, with a dog in a gardenGabrielle Ray (1883-1973), English actress, dancer and singer, with a bulldog in a garden. She was best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Date: circa 1900s
Jack Pickford, film actor, with dogsJack Pickford (1896-1933), Canadian-born American actor, film director and producer, with two dogs in a studio portrait. Date: circa 1910s
Owen Nares, actor, with Yorkshire terriersOwen Nares (1888-1943), English actor, with four Yorkshire terriers. The woman with him is possibly his sister Marie. Date: 1938
Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot, WW1Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot (Kaiser Wilhelm II, the ham actor), showing the German Kaiser in four different theatrical roles: ignoring treaties, being deceitful, involved in litigation, and as Tartuffe
Ballet dancer and admirerA ballet dancer and her admirer, a kneeling man in evening dress holding a bouquet. (1 of 4)
Ivy Tresmand (1898 - 1980), actress and singer. Appearing in Dalys production of the part of Frou-Frou in The Merry Widow. Date: 1923
Nelly Power, Victorian music hall entertainerNelly Power (?1854-1887), Victorian music hall entertainer and singer who appeared at the Canterbury, the Trocadero and the Vaudeville Theatres. Date: circa 1880s
