Audience Collection (page 16)

Sporting arena in India
Smoke is pumped into a sporting arena in India, possibly to further agitate fighting animals, here obscured beneath the white cloud

Imperial Choir performing at the Crystal Palace
The Imperial Choir performing in a concert at the Crystal Palace, south London. This 4500-voice choir was founded by Charles A. E. Harriss in 1909, and was made up of several large London choirs

The Best People by Chloe Preston
A group of snooty and arrogant looking theatre goers sit in a box, chomp chocolates and look disdainfully down upon the stage and audience below

The Introduction by Geo. S. Dixon
An actress in a skimpy stage costume and jaunty head dress introduces herself to a theatre audience at the beginning of a show or revue

The Concert
Two women and a gentleman, all dressed in their best evening attire, watch a performance intently with admiring glances from all three

Queen Victoria at Aston Hall
Queen Victorias visit to Birmingham-reading of the address to the interim managers in the Great Gallery of Aston Hall

Conjuror entertains a crowd
Louis-Philippe, proclaimed citizen king of France at the July revolution of 1830, is shown as a street conjuror, entertaining the crowds. HPG/8/2/1 (xi)

Magician performing the cup and balls trick in front of a se
Undated illustration of a magician performing the cup and balls trick in front of a seated audience, entitled " Champy dit Connus". HPG/8/2/1 (xxxi)"

Dr Adam Solomon Epstein, the French conjuror
Copy of wood engraving by S. Durand showing Dr Adam Solomon Epstein, the French conjuror, performing before the Imperial Prince, circa 1869. HPG/8/2/1 (xxxiii)

Magician performing the cup and balls trick to a small crowd
Undated illustration of magician performing the cup and balls trick to a small crowd, entitled " Rien dan les mains rien dans les peches je ne vous trompe pas mais..." (a Paris chez Albert)

Britannia and Eve, January 1933
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous woman in evening dress and gloves in a box at the theatre, her opera glasses and programme put to one side as she sits engrossed in a play

Illustration of a French conjuror and clown with crowd
Coloured illustration of a French conjuror and clown with crowd, circa 1800. HPG/8/2/1 (iv)

Jugglers stall at a fair
Coloured print of etching, " Caroline Fair, or Mat Pudding and his Mountebank", showing a jugglers stall at a fair

Rotund magician about to perform a trick for a crowd
Copy of illustration, " Escamoteur!" showing rotund magician about to perform a trick for a crowd (Imp. Chez Albert and Cie), February 1848. HPG/8/2/1 ()"

Interior and front view of the Little Theatre, Haymarket
Etching showing the interior of the Little Theatre, Haymarket and of the front view of the above, published by Robert Wilkinson, 1 December 1815. HPG/8/2/1 (xxv)

A new Christmas Entertainment: Childrens Japanese Quadrille
The Japanese Quadrille being performed, which formed part of the entertainment provided at a childrens Christmas party

At the Pantomime by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Lovely illustration by Susan Beatrice Pearse showing children at a Christmas pantomime. A clown on stage is throwing crackers into the audience stalls

Scene in a sporting arena, India
A scene in a sporting arena in India in the early 1920s, with fighting rams. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

International Horse Show, Olympia, London
View of the arena inside the Grand Hall at the International Horse Show, Olympia exhibition centre, West Kensington, London

The Birmingham Music Festival - The Great Music Hall
The Birmingham Musical Festival showing the Great Music Hall with Mendelssohn conducting " Elijah"

Cortes & Queen 1898
The Spanish Queen delivers a message to Cortes on the outbreak of the Hispano- American War

Lord Dufferin opens the Jubilee Bridge
Lord Dufferin(1826-1902), diplomat and eighth Viceroy of India, declaring the Jubilee Bridge of the East Indian Peninsular Railway open. The bridge crosses the river Hooghly, at Hooghly, India

ENSA Concert 1940
ENSA Concert in the Aldwych London Underground Station during World War II

Back-chat by Webster Murray
Colour illustration by Webster Murray depicting a stage actress engaging in some humorous banter with the audience, or conductor in the orchestra pit

Irish Unionist Meeting in London, 1886
Engraving showing the Great Unionist Meeting at Her Majestys Opera House, Haymarket, London, April 1886. A patriotic audience (bottom) acclaims Earl Cowper (centre, standing)

Audience of children at a London Music Hall, 1882
Engraving showing an audience of children at a performance at the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall, London, 1882. The original title for this image was Sit Down in Front

Sketches of the Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square, 1886
Engraving showing a series of sketches of the Socialist Meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, in November 1886. The images show (clockwise from top left)

The Irish Loyalist Demonstration at the Royal Albert Hall, 1
Engraving showing a view, from the gallery, of the Irish Loyalist Demonstration at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1893. The audience/demonstraters shown were protesting against any possibility of

Performance of The Messiah in St. Pauls Cathedral, 1861
Engraving showing the audience and choir (at back) gathered in St. Pauls Cathedral, London, for a performance of Handels Messiah, 1861

Rev. William Booth addressing a multi-national audience, 190
Illustration showing the Reverend William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, pictured at an imaginary gathering of a huge multi-national crowd

The Bystander Masthead
Scene depicting glamorous theatre goers in a box at the theatre, watching an actress on stage take a bow while the conductor is visible above the orchestra pit

Black Eagle at the Great United States Circus, London, 185
Engraving showing the American trick-horse Black Eagle performing at Howes and Cushings Great United States Circus at the Alhambra, Leicester Square, London, 1858

Circus Performance, c. 1886
Engraving showing a performance under way, during a travelling circus visit to an English country town, c.1886. The audience look on, amused

Bicycle Race at the Velodrome d Hiver, Paris, 1921
Illustration showing a Six-day bicycle race held at the Velodrome d Hiver Circuit, Paris, 1921. The cyclists raced for 144 hours to see who could cover the greatest distance over a six-day period

Oration of Demosthenes
An oration of Demosthenes

Pierre Loti / P Journal 22
PIERRE LOTI alias Louis-Marie-Julien VIAUD French naval officer and novelist receives the Legion d Honneur grand cross

Trick Bicycling in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, 1875
Engraving showing a display of trick bicycling, put on in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris watched by a large audience of fashionable Parisiens

Mac Murroughs Chant
MacMurrough chants a song in Celtic, which has his audience in raptures

Childrens Pantomime
The Childrens Pantomime Party at Covent Garden Theatre

The Graphic Xmas no
Front cover of The Graphics Jubilee Christmas number, celebrating 50 years of publication from 1869-1919. The image shows a theatre audience watching a magical scene with a fairy centre stage

Lenin Speaks
VLADIMIR LENIN speaks to an audience of workers and servicemen, persuading them that the Bolshevik way is the way to go

Churchill Cartoon
Churchill, First Sea Lord, depicted as a circus impresario explaining to the audience that Britannia has been taken ill and will not be able to perform

Louise Michel Speaks
Anarchist Louise Michel, known as the red virgin of Montmartre, is the most prominent woman of the Commune - depicted addressing an audience

An operating theatre with an all female audience
The Womens Medical College of Pennsylvania, a unique college founded by a private enterprise and directed by a committee of female doctors

Beauty Contest 1956
A beauty contest in Cliftonville, near Margate, Kent. Date: 1956

Bandstand at Eastbourne
An audience gathers around the bandstand on the front at Eastbourne in Sussex

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

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The latest type of home receiver for vision and sound, with a fluorescent screen 8 by 6 inches, displaying a picture of Mickey Mouse

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