Blacked Collection

DREADNOUGHT HOAX
VIRGINIA WOOLF as a young woman, with Duncan Grant, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton, Guy Ridley and Horace Cole as " The Emperor of Abyssinia and His Suite"

George H. Chirgwin know as the White-Eyed Kaffir
George H. Chirgwin (14 December 1854 17 November 1922) was a popular British music hall star billed as " the White-Eyed Kaffir", a black face minstrel act

Frank Tinney in Sometime, Vaudeville Theatre
Frank Tinney in Sometime, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, with Desiree Ellinger. 1925

G H Elliott, singer of the song, Frys Chocolate Major
G H Elliott, music hall star and singer of the song Frys Chocolate Major, words by A J Mills, music by Bennett Scott

Blacked-up entertainer in Harrogate, early 1900s

Boothfold Nutters, Waterfoot, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Illustration, Bristlewoods, in black out
Caricature illustration by Frank Reynolds, of a man and woman in a blacked out street, by garden gate, man with torch and dog. Captioned, Bristlewoods see it through'. With quotations, Mr

E W Royce as Jabez Pasha in Don Juan Date: 1890s

Cartoon, E W Mackney, Ethiopian entertainer (blackface minstrel). 1880s

Silver Street Boys School fancy dress group
Silver Street Boys School advanced class fancy dress group, most of them with blacked-up faces and hands. Their names are: Harold Blanchard, Philip Wilson, Arthur Thorne, Ernest Trafford

Huntley Wright and Gracie Leigh in The Cingalee, or Sunny Ceylon, a musical play about tea planters in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), which opened at Dalys Theatre, London, in 1904. circa 1904

Memories of Jolson, revue, Grand Theatre, Brighton
Memories of Jolson, great topical revue at the Grand Theatre, North Road, Brighton, melodies and memories of Al Jolson. 1954

Laughing old man
A laughing old man with a wart on his nose, a fuzzy beard and blacked-out teeth. Perhaps not a real tramp, but an actor wearing makeup? Date: circa 1960s

Group of people in ragtime fancy dress
A group of people in ragtime style fancy dress, including a cowboy on a mule, two policemen, men in drag, a pierrot, a chef, and a few blacked-up faces. Date: 1920s

Female Chimney Sweep
Londons only female chimney sweep, and a sturdy lass she looks, too!

Dick Whittington. Bookmark advertising The Kings Theatre
Dick Whittington. A souvenir bookmark advertising the pantomime at the Kings Theatre in Hammersmith. The clown, who slides up and down, was part of the old pantomime tradition

Suffragette, Votes for Women, Fancy Dress. A seated group of men and women, some in masks, men blacked up all in strange attire. Girl in front row holds Votes for Women placard. Date: circa 1909

Coronation fancy dress party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

Coronation fancy dress party, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

London blackout, World War II
London shop windows blacked out with paper and posters advertising their wares and with gas mask propaganda on the home front in London during World War II

Hillman 10 Saloon
A young lad sits satop the windrscreen of a Hillman 10 Saloon (in Wartime Livery) with proud Grandfathers on either side!

Phyllis and Jack Dare in Arabian costume
The actress and singer Phyllis Dare (1890-1975) with her elder brother Jack. They are dressed in costume for an Arabian Nights Ball

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