Director Collection (page 12)

Pons, Ventura. Catalan movie director. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Barcelona

Merxplas (or Merksplas) Labour Colony, Belgium
A new inmate arrives in the director principals carriage at the labour colony and beggars depot at Merxplas (or Merksplas), Belgium. Date: 1904

James Braidwood, Superintendent, LFEE
James Braidwood (1800-1861), founder of the worlds first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824. He was the first director of what was to become the London Fire Brigade

WPA in Ohio Federal Music Project presents Verdis grand opera Il trovatore Cast of 75 : Rudolph Schueller director. Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of Il Trovatore.. Date 1936 or 1937

Federal Music presents Gilbert & Sullivans light opera The gondoliers Cast of 100 : Handel Wadsworth director. Poster for Federal Music Project presentation of The Gondoliers.. Date 1936 or 1937

Southside Varsity Band concert, Harvey A. Sartorius, director, Southside High School, Rockville Centre Harwood Simmons, guest conductor

Scene in the Botanical Gardens with Director of Customs Building, Hamburg, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Farewell tour of Eduard Strauss, Imperial Court musical director and his famous orchestra from Vienna. Date c1900

Schoolchildren on Red Crag, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
These three schoolgirls from Walton-on-the-Naze Secondary School, Essex, are taking direction from a schoolboy operating the camera for a 16mm film project

Religious play, The Miracle, Olympia, West London
A scene showing two soldiers of the Inquisition during rehearsals for the religious drama The Miracle, performed in the huge arena of the Olympia exhibition centre, West London, at Christmas 1911

Titanic - Bruce Ismay
Page from the Illustrated London News reporting on the inquiry into the sinking of the Titanic, featuring a portrait of Joseph Bruce Ismay

Sir John Marshall (1876 - 1958)
Sir John Marshall, Director-General of the Archaelogical Survey of India, responsible for the excavations that led to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro

O J Broch, Scientist
O J BROCH Norwegian scientist in France - director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Paris. Date: 1818 - 1889

Oscar Asche as Abu Hasan in Chu Chin Chow
Mr Oscar Asche in the lead role of Abu Hasan in Chu Chin Chow - a musical comedy based on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves he wrote, produced and also directed! Date: circa 1919

Pierre Brisson Photo
PIERRE BRISSON French journalist and critic, director of Le Figaro. Date: 1896 - 1964

Elias Boudinot
ELIAS BOUDINOT American statesman, involved in the Revolution, later director of the U.S. mint. Date: 1740 - 1821

Tabernacle Choir, Organist and Conductor - Salt Lake City
The Mormon Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The inset portraits show Organist John Jasper J McClellan (1874-1925 - organist between 1900 and 1925)

Laurence Olivier at Chichester Festival Theatre
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989) directs a rehearsal at Chichester Festival Theatre. Olivier was the first artistic director of Chichester Festival Theatre which was opened in 1962. Date: 1962

Gerald Barry, Director-General, Festival of Britain

Nancy Price. Actress. An English actress on stage and screen, authoress and theatre director. Unattributed photograpic portrait Date: circa 1905

Filming of Blanche Fury
Scene during the filming of the movie Blanche Fury directed by Marc Allegret and adapted from the novel by Joseph Shearing

War Office letter to Mrs G G Ranstead, from the Director General of Mobilization, concerned the expected demobilisation of men who enlisted in 1914 and 1915. 11 June 1919

Admiral Sir Reginald Hall, Naval Intelligence, WW1
Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall (1870-1943), British Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI) during the First World War. He was jointly responsible for setting up the Royal Navys codebreaking

Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, Oxford Street, London W1
Restaurant Frascati Orchestra, 32 Oxford Street, London W1, with Madame Cecile Couturier, Director, on the violin, and her happy band of men on their various instruments

Royal visit to Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
Scene at a royal visit to the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London. Here Princess Margaret is seen shaking hands with one of the exhibition officials

Traditional cottage at Niarbyl, Isle of Man, with film crew
View of a traditional cottage at Niarbyl, on the south west coast of the Isle of Man, with a film crew working on The Manxman (1929, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a novel by Hall Caine)

Air Vice-Marshal Sir W Sefton Brancker
Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877 - 1930), Director of Civil Aviation, killed in the R101 airship disaster on 5th October 1930

Workhouse interior, Oliver Twist film, 1948
A workhouse interior from the 1948 film of Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean. A female inmate carries a baby. Behind her are workhouse " coffin beds"

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855 - 1934). English actor, dramatist and stage director

Auguste Vaucorbeil / Gill
Auguste Vaucorbeil (1821-1884) French composer, conductor and director of the Opra de Paris

Auriol Lee (1880 - 1941), British born playwright, theatre director and actress

Turkish Christmas Card
Christmas card sent by Ferdinando de Paruta who was the Director of the International Couriers and Guides Office of Pera, Constantinople. Card produced by Sebah and Joaillier in Constantinople

Dr Eugene Osty - French investigator of psychical phenomena, director of the Institut Metapsychique in Paris. HPG/1/13/2 (ii)

Businessman relaxes in his office
A Businessman (possibly a Company Director) sits back in a modern round wicker chair with hands behind his head and wearing a Warriors helmet

Hector Pessard / Gill
Hector Louis Francois Pessard (1836-1895) French writer and Director of the Office of the Press Department of the Interior

Sir Arthur Sloggett / Stamp
Sir ARTHUR THOMAS SLOGGETT (1857 - 1929), Director General of the Army Medical School (AMS)

Titanic Ismay silver tray
A circular silver tray for letters and calling cards, engraved with the names of Joseph Bruce Ismay and his wife. Ismay was Managing Director of the White Star Line

Louis-Franois Dumaine / Gill
Louis-Francois Dumaine (1831-1893) Actor and thetre director. Illustration referes to Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne

Louis Cantin / Gill
Louis Cantin, Parisian theater director, friend to Offenbach

John van Druten / Ruth Chatterton
John van Druten (1901-1957) British-born American dramatist and theatre director together with Ruth Chatterton, American actress (1893-1961)

Mr. Alfred Lucas
The photograph shows Mr. Alfred Lucas, Director of the Chemical Department of the Egyptian Government, moistening a 3000 year-old object from the Tomb of Tutankhamun with a brush for preservation

Thomas Andrews
A portrait of Thomas Andrews, Managing Director of Messrs Harland and Wolff, the builders of the Titanic

Harrods Diamond Jubilee, 1909
Illustration showing a number of scenes and figures at the department store, Harrods Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1909. Mr. R

George Gibson (1885-1953) Chairman of the TUC from 1940-1941 and Director of the Bank of England from 1946-1948

Giovanni D Cassini Oval
GIOVANNI DOMENICO CASSINI later Jean-Dominique, first Director of the Paris Observatory, who discovered four of Saturns moons between 1671 and 1684

The gold wig of Mes-Kalam-Dug
A gold helmet discovered at the royal grave at Ur, rivalling the gold mask of Tutankhamen. The discovery was made by Mr C

Earl of Derby
Photograph of The Earl of Derby, director of recruiting for Great Britain in 1915 and Minister of War from 1916-1918. Derby introduced a voluntary recruitment policy called the Derby Scheme

Portrait of Mr C Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, director of the British Museum Expedition in Mesopotamia. Born in London, 1880, he carried out excavations in Alubaid and Tell el-Armarna

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