Exotic Collection (page 17)

Strelitzia regina, bird of paradise
Plate 2 from Original Drawings for Hortus Kewensis by William Aiton (1731-1793). Painting by James Sowerby 1787. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Papaver orientale, oriental poppy
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Cover design, Latecoere Airlines timetable, serving France, Spain and Morocco. The Latecoere company was founded in 1917, and is based in Toulouse. Showing a map with routes. circa 1922

Advertising card for the Copacabana Club, NY
Advertising card for the Copacabana Club, New York, NY, USA. Minimum charge for entry of five dollars and fifty cents (per person)

Javanese Actors
Actors and Actresses from Java, wearing traditional headwear. Date: circa 1880

Rosie Dolly and Irving Netcher arrive in New York
Rosie 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 daughters
Jenny 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 frocks
The Dolly Sisters in His Bridal Night, Republic Theatre, New York, 1916 in creations by Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon) 1916

Lola Lee / Snake / T&c 1909
LOLA LEE Exotic dancer, partnered by a live boa constrictor Date: early 20th century

Character from Il Trovatore -- Azucena
Depiction of the character Azucena from Verdis grand opera Il Trovatore (The Troubador), first performed in Rome in 1853. The gipsy woman Azucena (a mezzo-soprano or contralto role)

Madame Mata-Hari dancing at the Musee Guimet
Mata Hari, a Malay name meaning eye of the day was the stage name of Margaretha Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan

Colonel J J Harrisons African Pygmies
Colonel Harrisons African Pygmies - brought to the UK to be shown on stage as persons of exotic interest! About a million people saw them before they left for the rain forests of the Congo in

The Exotic Girl
An exotic girl examines her finery, as trade and fishing ships go about their daily routine

Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (4 / 4)
Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (4/4) A Burmese lady in a beautiful outfit, her long dark hair falling down from her head surrounded by pink flowers, holding a parasol

Fijian Man with war club
A Fijian Man with war club resting on his shoulder. He wears a spectacluar neckace of carved bones and wears his hair brushed upwards in a wild and alarming fan-shape

Sudanese Woman in traditional Costume seemingly emerging from a small localised Nile River mist (!) with the pyramids lightly visible in the rear

Harem Pants 1910
Exotic eastern style: high waisted Turkish trousers / harem pants, decollete blouse, bolero, fish-net stockings, Louis heel shoes & a turban with aigrette

Hat / Mela Koehler
A woman wears a coat or mantle in a bold oriental print with a deep fur border & a hat with a fur brim & a high vertical trim

Dolcis Advert 1931
Advertisement for Dolcis shoes including: golf shoes, a Derby sports shoes & court shoes in bright exotic colours

Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India
Kaiser-I-Hind Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India -- she doesn t look very excited about it

Music cover, Vision of Salome, Valse (Waltz), by Archibald Joyce. circa 1900s

Lee White wearing costumes designed by Reville
American actress and entertainer, Lee White, posing in a variety of fantastic costumes designed by Reville for her tour of Australia in 1920. 1920

Zoie Ghika, Moldavian Princess, 1777, by Alexander Roslin
Alexander Roslin (1718-1793). Swedish painter. Zoie Ghika, Moldavian Princess, 1777. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

The Beetle, by Fagan, Freeman and King
The Beetle, by J B Fagan, Charles Freeman and Georges King from the novel by Richard Marsh (1897). First produced at the Repertory Theatre, Plymouth, November 1925

The Beauty Prize, by Grossmith and Wodehouse
The Beauty Prize, by George Grossmith and P G Wodehouse, with music by Jerome Kern. First produced at the Winter Garden Theatre, London, September 1923, produced by George Grossmith and J A E Malone

Aloma by John B Hymer and LeRoy Clemens, first produced in England at the Adelphi Theatre, London, May 1926. It was set on an island in the South Seas;

Two Japanese Geisha girls in colourful Kimonos reading a book together. Date: circa 1910s

Crazy theatrical costume from the early 20th century, part Eastern, part mythical, part Cumberland sausage...!! Date: circa 1910s

Cairo at His Majestys Theatre, London - Hast thou been to Mecca? Musical by Oscar Asche, music by Percy Fletcher, first produced October 1921. In America the show was renamed Mecca

Lolita, Spanish dancer in Paris. 1900s

Jean Baptiste Cabri, a Native of France. 1817

Decameron Nights at Drury Lane Theatre, London -- The Romance of Perdita and Saladin. circa 1920s

The Lotus Flower - Dancer of the Moulin Rouge, Paris Date: circa 1910s

The Scarf Dance - Algeria, North Africa Date: circa 1908

Circus troupe with camels and elephants proceeding along a road. circa 1900

Algeria - Moorish Dancer with tambourine
Algeria - A beautiful Moorish Dancer playing a tambourine. Date: 1902

Greek Man in ebullient rich local costume
Greek Man in traditional ebullient rich local costume, featuring silver briads, tassles, daggers white stockings and various medallions and metal plates. Date: circa 1910s

Afgar by Fred Thompson and Worton David, music by Charles Cuvillier, based on the operetta by Andre Barde and Michel Carre fils (Theatre des Capucines, Paris, 2 April 1909)

Erica taxifolia - Coloured engraving by D. MacKenzie based on a watercolour by Franz Bauer. Delineations of exotick plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew, t. 19, London, 1793. Date: 1793

Plate 162 - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Pterostylis rufa, rusty hood - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Plumeria sp. lei flower - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Erica fascicularis - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Erica mucasa - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Erica sexfaria, heather - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Erica cluerta - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

Ericaceae - Illustration from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840)

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