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Hollingshead Collection

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, Another Juliet

Cartoon, Another Juliet. Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre, for a matinee slot

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, John Hollingshead, Gaiety Theatre manager

Cartoon, John Hollingshead, Gaiety Theatre manager
Cartoon portrait, John Hollingshead (1827-1904), Gaiety Theatre manager. 1880s

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, The Theatrical Outlook

Cartoon, The Theatrical Outlook, Squire Bancroft and John Hollingshead, theatre managers. I am going to get out of it before I am hurt

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Stationery, Taylor Walkers Prize Beers

Stationery, Taylor Walkers Prize Beers. 1943

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, group of London theatre managers

Cartoon, group of London theatre managers
Cartoon showing a group of disconcerted London theatre managers, including William Holland with the long, spiky moustache, and John Hollingshead just behind him -- Something really ought to be done

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, John Hollingshead and two street musicians

Cartoon, John Hollingshead and two street musicians
Cartoon Comic Opera at the Gaiety. John Hollingshead (1827-1904), English theatre manager, producer, journalist and writer, calls out to two street musicians: I say poy

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, Colonel Sellers

Cartoon, Colonel Sellers. An adverse comment on a play based on a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, satirising corruption and greed in post-Civil War America

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Caricature of Arthur Williams, actor, playwright and singer

Caricature of Arthur Williams, actor, playwright and singer
Caricature of Arthur Williams (1844-1915), English actor, playwright and singer. 1882

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Caricature, two Princes and John Hollingshead, manager

Caricature, two Princes and John Hollingshead, manager
Caricature, two princes (Prince Albert Victor and Prince George) and John Hollingshead, manager, at the entrance to the Gaiety Theatre, London

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Caricature of John Hollingshead, theatre manager

Caricature of John Hollingshead, theatre manager
Caricature of John Hollingshead (1827-1904), at this time manager of the Gaiety Theatre, seen here reviving an actor (probably Edward Terry) and an actress (Sarah Bernhardt) in the form of puppets

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, Matinees! Matinees!! Matinees

Cartoon, Matinees! Matinees!! Matinees!!! Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Cartoon, London theatre managers as firemen

Cartoon, London theatre managers as firemen -- Something must be done to make the theatregoing public feel easy in their minds. Why not form a Managers Fire Brigade? 1881

Background imageHollingshead Collection: Caricature of the theatre manager John Hollingshead

Caricature of the theatre manager John Hollingshead
Caricature of the English theatre manager, producer, journalist and writer, John Hollingshead -- King John. circa 1870s

Background imageHollingshead Collection: John Hollingshead - 3

John Hollingshead - 3
JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD Writer and impresario, depicted as a showman. Date: 1827 - 1904

Background imageHollingshead Collection: John Hollingshead - 4

John Hollingshead - 4
JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD Writer and impresario, depicted as Clown with Colonel Bateman as Pantaloon. Date: 1827 - 1904

Background imageHollingshead Collection: John Hollingshead - 2

John Hollingshead - 2
JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD Writer and impresario, depicted juggling with drama, opera bouffe and ballet. Date: 1827 - 1904

Background imageHollingshead Collection: John Hollingshead - 1

John Hollingshead - 1
JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD Writer and impresario Date: 1827 - 1904


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