1920s Collection (page 22)

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA - The Pali Scenic Battle Ground. The Pali Lookout is a site of deep historical significance. Named Pali meaning " cliff" in Hawaiian

USA - A stylish 1920s couple dance the Boston Two-Step - an americanized version of the waltz. Date: circa 1908

Bruno Kastner - German stage and film actor
Bruno Kastner (18901932) - German stage and film actor, screenwriter and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era

Khartoum, Sudan, Africa - Sudanese girl carrying a water pot. Date: circa 1920s

Sudan, Africa - Shilluk Mother and her four daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Florence, Italy - the Doors of the Baptistery
Florence, Italy - The Baptistry is renowned for its three sets of artistically important bronze doors with relief sculptures

Ida Barr music hall singer 1882-1967
Ida Barr (Maud Barlow) music hall singer and burlesque actress. With Wee Georgie Wood in this image. Signed card. Date: circa 1920s

Iron jaw act
Unidentified iron jaw act. The performer held one end of a leather strap with their teeth while the other end of the strap had a hook which was attached to a trapeze or, in this case

Map, Gold Coast Colony, Ghana, West Africa, with the main cocoa producing areas shaded, a railway line and steamship routes. Also a gold mining area. Date: circa 1920

Kobe, Japan - A komuso (monk of the Fuke sect) wearing a basket hat (tengai or tengui) and playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Date: 1928

Jolly Nellie (642 pounds) - whilst at an exhibition in Tokyo, Japan. From the small coal mining community of Jobs near the Athens-Hocking county line

Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu, Japan. Completed in 1745 as a private strolling garden and villa for the local feudal lords, and opened to the public in 1875

Liverpool Ferry boat crossing the River Mersey to Birkenhead
Ferry boat crossing the River Mersey to Birkenhead, with Liverpool Docks and Harbour in the back ground with the distinctive shape of the Liver Building - Merseyside, England Date: 1924

John Gilbert - American actor, screenwriter and director
John Gilbert (1897-1936) - American actor, screenwriter and director. Gilbert ose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as The Great Lover. Date: circa 1920s

HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Glorious, aircraft carrier, at anchor, steaming up. HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

Electric Permanent Waving Machine 1928
A permanent electric waving machine, medusa, Serpents, exhibited at the Hairdressers Annual Exhibition. Date: 1928

The Ulster Slogan - Vote Early and Vote Often - woman voting
Woman seen voting during the Ulster elections of 1921. Date: 1921

(from left) Eduard Willy Kurt Herbert von Dirksen (1882-1955) - German diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, standing behind Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (1872-1936)

Cartoon, The Washington Hatchet
American design for a Japanese screen. It is announced that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance is to be terminated in favour of an understanding between the Four Great Powers that have interests in

Beaux-Arts des Modes, Album de Bal
French fashions, Beaux-Arts des Modes, Album de Bal Date: 1921-1922

c. 1920s - Tom and Alice obese sideshow performers
Early 20th century vintage press photograph - Tom and Alice obese sideshow performers arriving in Los Angeles. Probably Alice Dunbar

c. 1920s - Madame Alice fat lady performer
Picture captioned Madame Alice - possibly Alice Dunbar, nicknamed Alice from Dallas who worked for Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey for nearly 20 years

The Ferreres Aqueduct, Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain
The Ferreres Aqueduct, also known as the Pont del Diable (Devils Bridge), an ancient bridge, part of the Roman aqueduct built to supply water to the ancient city of Tarraco

Aerial view above The Sphinx, Giza, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s

Aerial view - New York Public Library and Bryant Park, NYC
Birds eye view of 42nd Street from 6th Avenue, New York City, USA. New York Public Library and Bryant Park dominating the view. Date: circa 1920s

A Royal Divorce, a Story of Waterloo, by W G Wills, first produced at the Avenue Theatre, Sunderland, 1 May and the Olympic Theatre, 10 September 1891

Ovaltine advertisement designed by Gladys Peto in her usual gorgeous, decorative style, showing women of all ages partaking of Ovaltine in a garden because it

Colour photograph of a girl guide in uniform. Date: c. 1930
Colour photograph of a girl guide in uniform. Date: c.1930

Typical Lancashire miners going on strike: A group of men leaving work until further notice. Date: October 1920

Welsh miners going on strike at the Rhondda valley colliery: Men leaving the mines. Date: October 1920

Advert for a new tea gown from Harvey Nichols, London, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for State Express 333 cigarettes, 1926 Date: 1926

Advert for shawls from Selfridge s, London, 1926 Date: 1926

Advert for Selva and Sons. Dancing Footwear, New York, 1929
Advert for Selva & Sons. Dancing Footwear, New York, 1929 Date: 1929

Bessie Love and Anita Page dancing in MGMs Broadway Melody, 1929 Date: 1929

The George Sisters - Doris and Phyllis - American
The George Sisters (Doris and Phyllis), American dancers of the stage and vaudeville 1927 - to be seen in the Broadway show Allez-Oop Date: 1927

Vera Mirova in her snake dance, 1928
Vera Mirova, who specialises in authentic oriental (from Burma, Java, Japan and East India) dances, in her snake dance, 1928 which she was performing in New York Date: 1928

The Peruvian dancer Helba Huara, on tour with A Night in Spain, 1928 - she had a unique style using ethnic dances (Peruvian and Spanish) and was exotic looking wearingnumerous original costumes Date

The four Cohans, the famous vaudeville act that included George M. Cohan (left) - also with hs sister, father and mother. Date: 1928

Tony Sarg and one of his dancing marionettes, 1928
Tony Sarg (regarded as Americas puppet master and one of his dancing marionettes, 1928 Date: 1928

Wallace and Sanna in one of their adagio dance numbers, 1928
Earlyne Wallace and John Sanna in one of their adagio dance numbers, 1928 Date: 1928

The English Adagio dancing team of Gaston and Andree, 1930 Date: 1930

The Demon Machine Dance performed by the Bodenwieser Ensemble during a summer season in London, 1929 Date: 1929

A portrait of the Hollywood actress Bessie Love, 1930 Date: 1930

A portrait of the British adagio and acrobatic dancers Divina and Charles, 1929 Date: 1929

A portrait of the Epp Sisters appearing in
A portrait of the Epp Sisters (Inge and Lola) appearing in the Deutsches Theatre show Nur Mit Dir (only with You) in Munich, Germany, 1931 Date: 1929

Photograph of Mid Kent Tavern, Lewisham, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1924

Colonel Barker - Valerie Smith Page from The Graphic reporting on the case of Colonel
Page from The Graphic reporting on the case of Colonel Barker (aka John Hill and Geoffrey Norton), who was born Lilias Irma Valerie Barker in 1895

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