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Adelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, LondonAdelaide Hall outside her home 1A Collingham Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London SW5. Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator
Clowns face on a hat-shaped New Year cardClowns smiling face on a hat-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Chantelle Crop - Murrays Cabaret Club costume designChantelle Crop - Original costume design for one of the performers at Murrays Cabaret Club, 16-18 Beak Street, Soho, London
Marie LloydA poster for the Empire Edmonton, advertising Marie Lloyds last performance, dated 2nd October 1922. Also billed is Dan Harlow, and Irene Magley and Monty Woolf. Date: 2nd October 1922
Jessie Matthews and dalmatianJessie Matthews (1907-1981), British actress, singer and dancer, pictured at the time she was appearing in Ever Green at the Adelphi Theatre in London
Mark Lester, child starMark Lester (b.1958), child star, best known for his title role in the film version of Lionel Barts musical, Oliver! Seen here sitting on a tree branch. Date: late 1960s
When my dream boat comes home - Music Sheet Cover by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin featured by the Carson Sisters (Violet and Nellie Carson), a illustration of boat and the moon is shining
Charles Kunz Radio Medley - Music Sheet Cover of famous modern Waltzes. When you and I where seventeen; That naughty waltz; Always; Peggy ONeil; Wonderful one; Ramona; What ll I do; In a little
Fantastic Transvestite PerformerA fantastic Transvestite Performer in dramatic pose! Date: 1924
Magician with two white doves, CornwallMagician in a sparkly red costume and silver top hat with two white doves perched on her hands, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
Stealing Pantalones food on a Christmas and New Year cardHarlequin and Columbine stealing Pantalones food and drink on a Christmas and New Year card (they are passing it through the windows to a Clown on the other side). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Victorian Scrap, Circus Clown and dog. circa 1880s
Lady de Frece (Vesta Tilley)Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations. Pictured around 1929 after she had retired from the stage
Jimmy Edwards and cat in a pantomime, Puss in BootsJimmy Edwards (1920-1988), English comic actor and writer, as King Jim, with a cat (played by Freda Wyn, aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989) in a pantomime, Puss in Boots, at Streatham Hill Theatre
Fern Andra, German actress, with Borzoi dogFern Andra (1893-1974), German actress, film director, scriptwriter and producer, with her Borzoi dog in a studio portrait. Date: circa 1920s
Vesta Tilley - final performance with Dame Ellen TerryVesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall actress whose speciality was male impersonations
Vesta Tilley in her wigMiss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), born Matilda Alice Powles, later Lady de Frece, music hall entertainer and variety artiste, best known for her male impersonations
Anita Harris, actress and singer, performing on stage
Irene Vernon CastleIRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts ; they were also in films. Date: 1917
Anna Held, stage performerAnna Held (1872-1918), Polish-born stage performer based in America, associated with the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. Seen here in an artistic pose, wearing a long lacy dress. Date: early 20th century
Carrie Moore rehearsing for The DairymaidsCarrie Moore, actress, rehearsing for the farcical musical comedy, The Dairymaids. Date: circa 1906
Cissie Lupino, music hall performer, who had recently performed a dance at the London Palladium. Date: 1914
Peter Hurkos, Dutch psychicPeter Hurkos (Pieter van der Hurk, 1911-1988), Dutch psychic. After the Second World War he became a popular entertainer. Date: 20th century
Vesta Tilley and Walter de Frece at homeMiss Vesta Tilley (1864-1952), music hall entertainer best known for her male impersonations, pictured at her home, the Homestead at Maidenhead, Berkshire, with her husband, Mr Walter de Frece
Houdini the amateur prison breaker and handcuff kingHarry Houdini (1874 - 1926), in a sequence of photographs escaping from a huge number of imprisoning handcuffs. 1904
Woman from the Oran Province, AlgeriaWoman from the Tafraoui region in the south of the Oran Province in north western Algeria. Date: 1906
Tunisian - Exotic Topless Dancer with scarfTunisian - Exotic Topless Dancer with golden scarf. Date: circa 1910s
Parisian Can Can dancerParisian Can Can girl - Paris, France. Date: circa 1910
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Romania - Dancer in National Costume Date: circa 1910s
Suzanne Derval / BoyerSUZANNE DERVAL Music hall entertainer Date: early 20th century
Nellie Wallace / SignedNELLIE WALLACE (Eleanor Jane Liddy) Music hall entertainer Date: 1870 - 1948
Rosie Dolly and Irving Netcher arrive in New YorkRosie Dolly and Irving Netcher as they arrived in New York from Paris aboard Olympic for their wedding, March 1932 1932
Jenny Dolly with her adopted daughtersJenny Dolly with her two adopted daughters (Manzi and Klari) shortly before her suicide, Los Angeles, 1941 1941
The Dolly Sisters and Parents, USA
Dolly Sisters in their dancing frocksThe Dolly Sisters in His Bridal Night, Republic Theatre, New York, 1916 in creations by Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon) 1916
Ken Livingstone with Morrissey, Mari Wilson and othersKen Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician. Seen here with Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey, b 1959), English singer and songwriter
Florence Mills in Black BirdsFlorence Mills, born Florence Winfrey (1896 - 1927), American cabaret star, singer, dancer and comedienne. Pictured centre stage with Miss Tillie Meadows
Pola Negri as the Spanish DancerPOLA NEGRI (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) in 1924, Polish film actress who specialised in femme fatale roles in silent films
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
A dancing bear and musicianA musician singing and playing a tamborine and his dancing bear at Constantinople, Turkey
Magician performing trick on table with cup and ballsColoured print of illustration, entitled " Escamoteur: La premiere muscade la voila" showing magician performing trick on table with cup and balls, circa 1810. HPG/8/2/1 (xi)"
Vera Le Fleming (born c1901), a child ballet dancer and impersonator, performing in costume in front of a painted backdrop
Harry Conlin / G CookeHARRY CONLIN Music hall entertainer " In love"
Charlie Coborn / E PykeCHARLIE COBORN (Colin Whitton McCallum) Music hall entertainer
Philip Astley / Top HatPHILIP ASTLEY Equestrian entertainer; circus proprietor
Charles Bignell / PykeCHARLES BIGNELL Music Hall entertainer
Anna Neagle - popular English actress, singer and dancerAnna Neagle (1904-1986) - Dame Anna Neagle, DBE, born Florence Marjorie Robertson - a popular English stage and film actress and singer and dancer (see 10638893 !) Date: circa 1935