Born Collection (page 7)

Esther Bruce & Kathy Joyce in Brighton. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham, London to a Guyanese father & an English mother

Esther Bruce in Fulham, London. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham, London to a Guyanese father & an English mother

Esther Bruce & neighbour celebrating the Coronation
Esther Bruce & her neighbour Mrs Bennett celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Fulham, London. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham

Portrait of Pope Gregory XV (1554-1623). Engraving by Peter
Pope Gregory XV (1554-1623). Born Alessandro Ludovisi. Engraving by Peter Isselburg (1580-ca.1630). Colored

Johann Christian Bauer (1802-1867). Born in Hanau, Germany. Type designer, punchcutter, and founder of the Bauer Type Foundry in 1837. Date: Date unknown

Paseo de Born - Palma de Majorca, Spain
The Paseo de Born - Palma de Majorca, Spain. Date: circa 1920

Anna Magnan (1909 - 1973), Italian film actress, born in Egypt

Pola Negri (Appolonia Chalupek) (1897 - 1987), Polish-born actress who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and was successful in silent films

SA Waksman - COL Lith
Selman Abraham Waksman (1888 - 1973) American biochemist, born in Russia

14th Marquess Winchester
Captain Matthew WEBB, who on 24 August 1875 was the first person to swim the English Channel Date: 1848 - 1883

Maxim Gorky / Sorrento
MAXIM GORKY Russian writer (born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov) at Sorrento in 1868 Date: 1868 - 1936

Joan Fontaine (1917 - 2013), (Joan de Havilland) British-born actress in American films; sister of Olivia

Two-Headed Boy
Two-headed boy, five years old, born in Turin, Italy in 1877 : each is a distinct individual, and controls his own arm and leg; both are friendly and intelligent Date: 1882

Baroness Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozalia Maria Jozefa Borbala Emmuska Orczy de Orczi (1865-1947), Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright, writer of The Scarlet Pimpernel series. Date: 1925

Woman asleep and dreaming on a Christmas card. She has been playing music from Handels Messiah on a pipe organ, and dreams of angels announcing the birth of Christ -- For unto us a child is born

Barnardos child Michael born with one hand
A photograph of Michael, born with one hand and being cared for by Barnardo s. Date: circa 1930s

Camille Clifford (1885 - 1971), Belgian-born stage actress and the most famous model for the " Gibson Girl" illustrations, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson, who married the Hon

Cambrai road Army advances Dated September 7th 1918
Cambrai road. Army advances. Dated September 7th 1918. 313870 Gunner Vivian John Cummings, Born 31.07.1875, 3Rd Canadian Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force

Death Plaque in the name of Ernest Emmerson. There are two Ernest Emmersons listed on Soldiers Died. They are : 1) 12/1247 Lance Corporal Ernest Emmerson, York and Lancaster Regiment

Life Amongst the Sand Bags by Hugo Morgan, WW1
Book Cover mounted on card - Life Amongst the Sand Bags by Hugo Morgan (The Soldier Books). Design by 240455 Private George Barrow, 6th Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (formerly 7389)

Cora Pearl Photo
CORA PEARL (born Eliza Emma Crouch) - English-born courtesan whose convent-school upbringing led to a brilliant career as the queen of the Paris demi-monde : in 1867. Date: 1835 - 1886

Ludovico Visconti
LUDOVICO TULLIO GIOACCHINO VISCONTI Italian-born architect working in France Date: 1791 - 1853

Muhammad Ali Pasha
MUHAMMAD ALI (or Mehmet and other spellings) Albanian-born viceroy of Egypt, who carried out useful reforms but was ruthless and greedy. Date: 1769 - 1848

Hiob Ludolf - 2
HIOB LUDOLF German oriental scholar, born in Erfurt, died in Frankfurt. Date: 1624 - 1704

BENEDICT XIII. Antipope, born Pedro de Luna. Polychrome wood sculpture, Spanish-Flemish style. Detail. Antipope Pedro de Luna. 16th c. Sculpture on wood. SPAIN. Barcelona. Frederic Mares Museum

Charles Rowell. The Celebrated Pedestrian. Born in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, August 12th 1853. Height 6 ft. 5 ins. Weight 140 lbs. Winner of the Astley Belt

Sundays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Wagner / Birthplace
RICHARD WAGNER House in Leipzig where the German composer was born on 22 May 1813 Date: 1813 - 1883

Thumbelina is born -- the flower opens and a tiny girl appears. Beginning of a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835

Adelaide Hall (1901-1993), American-born British jazz singer and entertainer, seen here in later life. She began her career on Broadway, New York, in 1921, and made her name in 1928

Duchess of Albany with Charles Edward
Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany with her son, Prince Charles Edward of Albany (1884-1954). Charlie was born posthumously

The Hesse- Cassel children
The children of Princess Margarete of Prussia and Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse-Cassel: from left; Wolfgang (1896-1989), Friedrich Wilhelm (1893-1916), known as Freddy, Richard (1901-1969)

Oh, well, she knows the ropes by Merlin Enabnit
Pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) wearing boxing gloves posed strategically across her chest. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Marlene Dietrich, 1933
Photograph showing Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) in a flannel suit with a waist coat, teamed with a bere, 1933. Marlene Dietrich

Hughie Green & his Rolls Royce
Hughie Green with his Rolls Royce. Born 2/2/1920 in Kent, Green was one of the first great British TV stars, well-known as the host of popular show, Opportunity Knocks

Robert Radford, Singer
ROBERT RADFORD English bass, born in Nottingham. First English Boris Godunov. Date: 1874 - 1933

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), US inventor and telephone pioneer. Born in Edinburgh, Bell began his career in assisting his father teach elocution

Eleonore Zugun - 1
Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata

Rossows Midgets
ROSSOWs MIDGETS Franz and Carl, two Viennese brothers, with Hermann Rossow their impresario; their brothers and sisters are of normal size

Victor Franz Hess / Nobel
VICTOR FRANZ HESS American physicist, born in Austria

Szent-Gyorgyi / Nobel 1937
ALBERT VON NAGYRAPOLT SZENT-GYORGYI American biochemist, born in Hungary Date: 1893 - 1986

Sun Hou Tzu
The mischievous monkey fairy/ god, Sun Hou-Tzu, is born from a rock. The legend of the Journey to the West (Hsi Yu Chi) tells of his part in a quest for a Buddhist text

Shakespeare / Birthplace
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The house in Stratford-upon- Avon in which Shakespeare was born

Franklin McLeay
Franklin (Franklyn) McLeay (1864 - 1900), Canadian-born actor, shown here in costume as Jediah in The Daughters of Babylon. Date: 1899

Friends of Sapper Wilbert, with motorcycles
One of 8 photograph postcards of friends of Sapper Wilbert, with motorcycles. Some photographs are signed and dated. From a collection of 18 photograph postcards collected by 316956 Sapper Harold

Cartoon, Robert Soutar, actor, and Meyer Lutz, composer
Cartoon, Robert Soutar (left, 1830-1908), English actor, comedian, stage manager, writer and director, and Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (right, 1829-1903), German-born British composer and conductor -- A Month

Cartoon, Sir Michael Costa and Sir Julius Benedict
Cartoon -- Benefit Knights. They are (left) Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (1808-1884), an Italian-born conductor and composer, and (right) Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885)

Sydney Jewell with her first-born son John. circa 1900s

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