Halls Collection

The Dining Hall of Balliol College, Oxford University circa 1910s

Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA - Greetings Postcard Date: 1895

Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1910

Maude Edwards ventriloquist
Maude Edwards (1886 - 1976), female ventriloquist, with her puppeteered dummy Nobbler, stable boy seated upon her knee. Date: 1905

Bessie Bonehill music hall male impersonator 1855-1902
Bessie Bonehill started on the halls as a clog dancer as part of the Sisters Bonehill act and became a male impersonator. Jaunty pose with hands in pockets

Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway, was built in 1950 to celebrate the citys 900th anniversary. It is the most distinctive part of the citys waterfront. Date: opened 1950

Caricature of Cora Cardigan, flautist
Caricature of Cora Cardigan (Hannah Rosetta Dinah Moulton, 1860-1931), virtuoso flautist who worked mainly in theatres and music halls. She also played the violin. 1883

Royal Music Hall - waiting to go on 1900
Standing in the entrance to go on stage at the Music Hall, Holborn, London. Date: 1900

George Leyton
Promotional postcard for George Leyton. George Leyton was a well-known music hall singer, whose speciality was patriotic and military songs

Dan Leno
Promotional postcard for Dan Leno(1860-1904) " The Kings Jester" One of Alick P. Ritchies series of music hall performers

The Hippodrome building, London
The Hippodrome building on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square in the City of Westminster, London. Date: 1900s

Dorothy Ward music hall and musical comedy star 1890-1987
Dorothy Ward billed on the music halls as the ?Queen of Musical Comedy?. Pantomime principal boy. Holding out the skirt of an elaborately fringed dress. Hat with long tassel and feathers

Dot Stephens music hall vocalist and dancer
Dot Stephens vocalist and dancer. Here dressed as ?Mother?s Sailor Boy?. Travelling between halls, she stepped out of the wrong side of the train and had both feet amputated

George Lashwood music hall singer 1863-1942
George Lashwood, a singer, known as the ?Brummel of the Halls?. Admired by male impersonator Hetty (Hettie) King who copied his style of dress in some of her outfits. Date: circa 1900

The Machinery Halls, The Franco-British Exhibition at White City, London, in 1908

Weymoor Post Office and Hall's Newsagents Shop, Harborne, south-west Birmingham. Note the K3 telephone box/booth/kiosk (right) - the K3, introduced in 1929, again by Giles Gilbert Scott

One of the banqueting Halls at the Princes Restaurant, London, 1920s Date: 1920s

Map of London's Leading Cinemas and Music Halls Date: 1931

Hall's Gap, Victoria
This landscape oil painting shows Hall's Gap, well known for its sandstone mountains and wildflowers in Victoria, Australia. Date: circa 1922

Hall's Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare's daughter Susanna (1583-1649), after her marriage to John Hall in 1607. Date: 1954

Nassau, Bahamas, Post Office, Secretariat, Legislative Halls
Nassau, Bahamas - Post Office, Secretariat and Legislative Halls. Date: circa 1950s

The audience of the Old Time Music Hall TV show, entitled The Good Old Days, filmed at the City Varieties in Leeds. Dressed in Victorian and Edwardian costume, they were an integral part of the show

Two of the cast of the Old Time Music Hall TV show, known as The Good Old Days, filmed at the City Varieties in Leeds. The man on the left lights a candle, while the compere

Skinner's Hall, Newgate Hill

GEORGE H CHIRGWIN/HALLS
GEORGE H CHIRGWIN Music hall entertainer, known as the White-Eyed Musical Moke or the White- Eyed Kaffir Date: 1854 - 1922

Hall's Croft, Old Town, Stratford-upon-Avon by W.W. Quatremain

Hall's Croft garden, Stratford-upon-Avon by W.W. Quatremain

Lew Lakes Colossal Comedy Company of Comedians
Promotional postcard for Lew Lakes Colossal Comedy Company of Comedians. Popular music hall sketch company set up by Lew Lake (1874-1939)

Comic postcard, Drunken man on his way home, playing the railings like a harp Date: 20th century

A Japanese Fantasy by Ernestine Day showing her
A Japanese Fantasy by Ernestine Day (one of the Denishawn dancers) showing her new fan dance - an interpretation of Japanese life - will be seen in concert halls, 1927 Date: 1927

The Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington, London. 1870s

Music cover, The Dark Girl Dress d in Blue, sung by Kate Harley, and written and sung by Harry Clifton at the London Music Halls. With the International Exhibition of 1862 in the background. 1862

Cartoon, Music Hall Proprietors
Cartoon, The dismay of the Music-Hall Proprietors when they heard of the threatened destruction of the Inventions Exhibition, knew no bounds

Cartoon portrait, Mr John Dallas, actor - Is it true that he is about to give the music halls a turn? 1885

St. Jamess Hall, London 1856
An artists impression of St. Jamess Hall to be erected between Piccadilly and Regent Street. The architect for this was Owen Jones. 1856

Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker (1906-1975) Legendary star of the French music halls and cabaret. Date: 1920s

Advert, rehearsal halls, New York City, USA
Advertisement, rehearsal halls for all occasions, with pianos and victrolas, West 46th Street, New York City, USA. Tune in on Jack Clark, The Radio Tapper, acrobatics and stage dancing. circa 1930

The London Pavilion
Front cover of The Magazine Programme featuring a striking image of Eros and The London Pavilion at night. Date: 1933

The Hippodrome building, London
The Hippodrome building on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square in the City of Westminster, London. Date: 1900s

Cordwainers Hall, Distaff Lane

Moyses Hall, Cornhill, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, was built by the Normans, in about 1180. It is now a museum of the history of West Sussex. Date: late 12th century

Dolly Sisters in Paris
Dolly Sisters, Hungarian-American identical twin dancers and actresses. Date: 1929

BUILDING BOILER HOUSE
Building the boiler-house which will provide heating for the exhibition halls. Date: 1851

Uncle Tony, with his dachshund Solon - Oxford. Date: circa 1895

Paul Cinquevalli (1859 1918), German entertainer whose speciality juggling act was popular, known as (King of the Jugglers), who could catch a cannon ball on his neck

Theodore Hardeen brother of Harry Houdini 1905
Theodore Hardeen (1876 1945), Hungarian magician and escape artist, younger brother of the famous Harry Houdini, (with whom he formerly worked with), known simply as Hardeen or Brother of Houdini

Jakob Koch (1871 - 1918), German amateur wrestler. Date: 1905

City hall (Hotel de Ville) of Dakar, Senegal (then French West Africa), nowadays housing the Dakar City Counsil. Date: circa 1910

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