Gay Collection (page 5)

Boeing B-29 Enola Gay landing back on Tinian-Marianas after Hiroshima raid, 5 Aug 1945

Broad-leafed brown pea, Bossiaea ornata.. Handcolored copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from Sydenham Edwards The Botanical Register, London, Ridgway, 1834

HUGUE, Manolo. Flamenco dancer
HUGUE, Manolo (1872-1945). Flamenco dancer. 1901. Alleged portrait of Carmen Pichot de Gay performing Bizets Carmen. Lead pencil and pastel. Drawing. SPAIN. CATALONIA. BARCELONA. Sitges

Cruikshank, The Gin Shop, plate 1
This is the Gin-shop all glittering and gay. Illustration no. 1 of 12 by George Cruikshank to The Gin-Shop, an improving rhyme warning against the dangers of alcohol and its ruinous effects

Steve Donoghue and son
Stephen Donoghue (1884 - 1945), English flat race jockey who won the Epsom Derby six times. Pictured in The Tatler after heading up the winning list for the fourth year in succession on his horse

Steve Donoghue on Gay Crusader
Steve Donoghue (1884 - 1945), English flat race jockey who won the Epsom Derby six times. pictured riding Gay Grusader, who he rode to a win in the race in 1917.. Date: 1917

Stagecoach party, Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, USA
Stagecoach party setting off from the Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 20th century

Gays Lion Farm, El Monte, California, USA, showing Mrs Gay feeding the lion cub Bamboola with milk from a bottle. Date: 20th century

Mordaunt, Peterborboro
CHARLES MORDAUNT, third earl of PETERBOROUGH, first earl of Monmouth admiral, general and diplomat, author, friend of Swift, Pope and Gay Date: 1658 - 1735

Sailors Snack
Hungry sailors tuck into a plate of chicken wings served through a porthole! Date: early 1930s

Men at Holiday Camp
Men sunbathing and digging at Physiopolis, a health club where people used to meet and holiday together. Date: 1930s

The Coronation of George VI - Celebrations at St Helier
The Coronation of George VI - Celebrations and decorations on the street at St Helier, Jersey - The corner of King Street (now pedestrianised)

Fall / Wheaten Terrier / 59
GAY of BINHEATH Owner: Heber Percy Date: 1959

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph-Louis (1778-1850)

The Kalaw Hotel - Kalaw - The Hotel is off to one side near the end of the valley - stucco and half-timbered, casual and unpretentious

Mitchell - South Dakota - The fabulous Corn Palace was in process of being refurbished for the festival at the end of the month

Loung Suits Photo 1890S
Dapper young men in lounge suits, shirts with all-round stand collars, side buttoning boots & pinkie rings, also a tie fastened with a ring, a bowler hat, cane & a monocle. Date: 1890s

The Hyde Park Golden Jubilee Committee present the Gay 90 s
The Hyde Park Golden Jubilee Committee present the Gay 90s Art Ball staged by Nick John Matsoukas. Poster advertising a gay 90s art ball sponsored by the Hyde Park Golden Jubilee Committee. Date 1939

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Jph. Lis. Gay-Lussac (physicien et chimiste), membre de l Academie royale des sciences, de la Societe royale de Londres, &a. Ne e St. Leonard... 1778

Gay-Lussac. Head-and-shoulders portrait of French scientist and balloonist Gay-Lussac who tested several hypotheses on the earths atmosphere. Date between 1800 and 1850

Mathews & Bulger in the polite comic play, At gay Coney Island by Levin C. Tees. Date c1896

Scribners Gay Morning Glories. Date 19 - ?

The famous Rentz Santley Novelty and Burlesque Co. first time in America : the sensational scene, gay life in Paris, introducing Jardine Mabile Dance. Date 1890

The Gay Morning Glories Vaudevillers & Burlesquers The Gay M
The Gay Morning Glories Vaudevillers & Burlesquers. Date c1898

Gay New York a real comedy with music : the biggest success of the year. Date c1907

Gay Masqueraders Gorgeous Extravaganza Co. everything new. Date c1898

Bath Gay Street
34 Gay Street, Bath, Avon, formerly the studio of photographic pioneer Friese- Greene. Date: 20th century

Singing Surfer
Singers are not softies : Our cameraman caught Gay just as he was flat-diving into the surf and called him a song- and-surf man. Gay is a true athlete, muscular and lean. 1940s

Brunette on Rings 1927
A gay brunette exercises on the rings. Date: 1927

Music / Opera / Gay
POLLY by John Gay - Miss Brown in the character of Polly Date: 1777

British Ballad, The Gay Goshawk
THE GAY HOSHAWK. British ballad about a Scottish squire who sends letters to his love by a goshawk. He tells her that he will die for love

Charlots Review 1925, Nerman
Jack Buchanan, Beatrice Lillie, Phyllis Monkman, Morris Harvey, Gertrude Lawrence, Herbert Mundin, Maisie Gay, in Charlots Review, 1925

A Short Skirt- And A Gay One
Lady walking her dogs in the park, on an autumn day

Captain Macheath
Gays character of Captain Macheath is borrowed for a political cartoon

Gay Beggars Fenton
Miss Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum

John Gay Holl
JOHN GAY English poet, playwright and theatre manager, famous for The Beggars Opera

Gay Beggars Duet
final scene of Act I: Mr Matocks as Macheath and Mrs Cargill as Polly, saying farewell to each other

Delphine Girardin
DELPHINE (GAY) GIRARDIN French writer, wife of Emile Girardin

Dorothy Dickson / Nerman
DOROTHY DICKSON American musical comedy star, based mainly in Britain, seen here with Maisie Gay in Peggy-Ann

John Gay Knight Zinck
JOHN GAY Writer

John Gay / Writer
JOHN GAY Writer

London Bridge is broken down, words and music
London Bridge is broken down! Dance o er my Lady Lea.... How shall we build it up again, With a gay Lady

Gay Lussac Balloonflight
French scientist GAY-LUSSAC makes one of his ascents at Paris - the first instance of a manned aerial device being used for scientific purposes

Gents at a Ball
Two young men whispering about an attractive girl who is on the dance floor with a bearded gentleman who has his hand around her waist

Piccadilly 1902
Busy scene around the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus, including a passing bus advertising Arthur Wing Pineros play " The Gay Lord Quex" in the background

Parisians at Restaurant
Gay Parisians in La Rue de la Paix

Fancy Dress Outfit
The Ping Pong Girl : A novel fancy dress costume, a gay look for January parties. Though striking in effect, it can quite easily be made from cheap materials

Gay-Lussac (Card)
JOSEPH LOUIS GAY-LUSSAC French scientist, depicted in his laboratory

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