Banjo Gallery

Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi and Alexander Henderson

Cartoon, Monsieur Jacobi, theatre director (in the background) -- I had engaged to give those people a taste of The Beggar Student, and now there is Alexander Henderson on the same job! A comment on a production of Der Bettelstudent, a three-act German operetta which premiered in Vienna in 1882. The production at the Alhambra Theatre, London, in 1884, included a grand military ballet by Jacobi. Henderson, theatre owner and director, stands in costume in the foreground, playing a mandolin.
1884

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Caricature of Hermann Vezin, Shakespearean actor

Caricature of Hermann Vezin (1829-1910), American-born Shakespearean actor active in the UK. At the time of this cartoon he was in London, playing the role of Iago in Othello. Seen here with blacking on his face as a minstrel with a banjo.
1880

© Terry Parker / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Sailors' camping party, Virago Sound, Canada

Sailors' camping party, Virago Sound, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. They belong to HMS Egeria, a British Royal Navy coastal survey ship. Date: 1907

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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