Curtain Collection (page 11)

Nurse, doctor and patient at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with a nurse (probably matron) and a doctor attending to a patient

Sir Charles Wyndham (1837 - 1919). English actor, who was born Charles Culverwell."

Music cover for Julliens American Polka (part of Louis Antoine Julliens Celebrated Polkas series), based on popular American melodies and dedicated to Mr Thompson of Glasgow

New Year Card - Girl with feather in her hat

Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (Temps)
Music cover for Valse a Deux Tems (or Temps), meaning Waltz in Two Beats or Two-Step Waltz, a popular style of waltz in the mid-19th century

A Jersey Kitchen
A Jersey cottage kitchen, complete with copper pans on the fireplace range, a well-stocker dresser and curtained mantlepiece

Prince of Wales (later Edward VII)
The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) in morning dress, sitting in the photographers studio

Group of Algerian Musicians
A group of Algerian musicians, seated outside their house, with a low round table holding a selection of food and drink

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

Scottish medium Helen Duncan starting to emit ectoplasm
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan starting to emit " ectoplasm" with " glove" during sance in Edinburgh whilst being controlled, May 1933. HPG/1/4/2(i)"

Ectoplasm forming from Helen Duncans mouth
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (vi)

Photograph of the infra-red cage at the National Laborator
Photograph of the infra-red " cage" at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, used during the Rudi Schneider experiments, 1932

Undated photograph showing ectoplasm forming
Undated photograph showing " ectoplasm" forming from the Scottish medium Helen Duncans mouth down her front and over shoulder. HPG/1/4/2 (v)

Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic ha
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Teleplasmic hand holding basket at a seance
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan blindfolded during a sance, producing " ectoplasm" and a " hand". The photograph is annotated to show fraudulence

Belgium - Senior Belgian Railway Official & daughter standing in front of his house which boast the most elegant and exotic net curtains one is likely to witness in ones lifetime

Horrockses cotton advertisement
Advertisement for Horrockses, the greatest name in cotton and the leading manufacturer of printed cotton textiles for clothing and furnishing during the 1950s

Izmir, Turkey - Pasha in his Palace and the Harbour
A Pasha in his Palace before an exotic garden, smoking a pipe and seated below a silk damask curtain with gold bullion fringe

A lady at the opera
A well-dressed, smiling young lady, wearing a hat with feathery plumes, looks out of her opera box, a glove in one hand, mask in the other

Da Vinci / Hentze / Tidende
LEONARDO DA VINCI Italian artist working in his studio, with the model for his most famous painting

Preliminary Manoeuvres
A show girl, with skirts hoisted to reveal stocking tops, peeping through a stage curtain

Belgian Grotto 2
Stalactites, junctions and curtain at Han

Purple Pardessus 1861
Purple mantle with guipure pelerine and tassels, pale purple dress with star pattern

Housewife Using Twin Tub
A young housewife uses wooden pincers to pull her laundry out of the washing half of the Twin Tub washing machine to put it into the spinning half

Mole & Monkey Fur Coat
A kimono style evening coat in a square patchwork of mole fur with monkey fur collar & cuffs

Mr. Mrs. Caudle / Fiction
Mr. & Mrs. Caudle in bed: " No! Mr. Caudle, I shall not go to sleep like a good soul! "

Pardussus / Mantles 1861
Purple mantle with guipure pelerine; black pardessus with fur trim; childs pardessus: blue with fur trim; brown mantle with black fur cape; pardessus with decorative trim

Egan / Rise of the Curtain
The premature rise of the curtain - a scene not contemplated by the author of the play

Little Girl Asleep 1902
A little girl sleeps and dreams

Books / Goldsmith Citizen
The Citizen of the World, or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East

Miriam Clements / 1903
Miriam Clements Actress

Curtain Makers 1900
German women making various lace and cotton curtains

Rossini / Tell / Trio
The celebrated trio from Act Two in which Tell, Walter and Arnold swear to free Switzer- land from the Austrian yoke, which they will do before the final curtain falls

Mascagni / Cav - Liebig
Sixty curtain calls greet the first production at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome - a resounding success which will be followed by enduring popularity

USA / Met Opera / Curtain
NEW YORK Wagnerian opera singers take a curtain call, assisted by a footman

Children Watch Snow 1929
Two little girls and their mother look out through the window as the snow falls

Cheruit Evening Robe
Robe by Cheruit: heavily ornamented corsage & a double skirt, the column silhouette broken by the translucent polonaise style tunic. Bandeau & feather headdress

Theatre Coat / Paquin 1912
Exotic pink & black kimono style theatre coat by Paquin embellished with chinese embroidery & trimmed with fur. Her headdress is ornamented with embroidery & beads

She Hems a Curtain
She hems a curtain

Two at the Theatre
Its a shame to hide in a box with our dresses by Philippe et Gaston and Beer - why don t we slip down to the bar and have a little drinkie before the curtain goes up ?

Copernicus [Larmessin]
MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) Polish astronomer

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