Johnny Collection

Vesta Tilley / Piccadilly
VESTA TILLEY Music hall entertainer, best known for her male impersonations, singing Algy, the Piccadilly Johnny (with the little glass eye)

Hoffmann / Johnny Head-Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johnny falls into the river, much to the bewilderment of the fish

Jockey / Johnny Dines 20C
Johnny Dines, jockey, in the colours of Mr Adam Boazman

Hoffmann / Johnny Head Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johhny collides with a dog

WW2 Poster -- ENSA Entertainments, Swing Vogue
Photolithograph poster inscribed NaFI presents ENSA Entertainments for HM Forces. Its modern, its new, its bright, its Swing Vogue

Welcome to my dream - Music Sheet Cover, words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Paramount Presents Road to Utopia starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour

Music cover, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, by Johnny Marks. 1949

Captain Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members
Captain Johnny Newcome saying goodbye to old crew members and veterans at Greenwich Hospital. Midshipmen in uniforms, peg-legged veterans with walking sticks

Onion seller on the Embankment, London Date: early 1900s

Tarzan's Secret Treasure cinema projection slide 1941

Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan's Secret Treasure movie advertisement

Johnny Zero, WW2 Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Johnny Zero, lyric by Mack David, words by Vee Lawnhurst, featured and broadcast by George Elrick, who can be seen in the portrait photograph

Wings Over The Navy, Music Cover
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Wings Over The Navy, words by Johnny Mercer, music by Harry Warren. Featured and broadcast by Henry Hall and his orchestra

Menus from RMS Queen Mary
Cunard White Star, menus from RMS Queen Mary, April 1948, with one signed by swimming and film star Johnny Weissmuller. Date: 1948

Athletes and Sculptures
Athletes posing, and being rendered in the form of sculpture. Shown posing are swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) and boxer Primo Carnera (1906-1967)

Music cover, Going My Way, Bing Crosby
Music cover, Going My Way, words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen, sung by Bing Crosby in the Paramount film Going My Way Date: 1944

Music cover, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, Bing Crosby
Music cover, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, words by Johnny Mercer, music by Harold Arlen, sung by Bing Crosby with Betty Hutton in the Paramount film Here Come the Waves Date: 1944

Advert for Johnnie Walker whisky
Advert for Johnnie Walker blended scotch whisky. Date: 1939

Daydreaming (All Night Long) from The Gay Impostors
Music cover, Daydreaming (All Night Long), words by Johnny Mercer, music by Harry Warren, from the Warner Bros film, The Gay Impostors, with Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Johnny get your gun
The Caption is Johnny get your gun! Mabel Lucie is perhaps unwittingly relating this card to the anti-war novel Johnny got his gun published in 1938 in which a soldier loses all his limbs in

Comic Seaside Postcard - I Can t See My Little Johnny
I Can t See My Little Johnny - Humorous saucy seaside postcard design by Donald McGill (1875-1962). Date: circa 1949

Midshipman Newcome bowing as he leaves dinner in the captains cabin, HMS Victory. Captain Spring, Admiral Hearty and other offiicers drink wine after dinner

Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator in
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage

Johnny in the West Indies pursued by a black squadron
English Navy officer fleeing from an angry Massa planter and Quashee enslaved men barndishing cudgels in Jamaica. Captain Newcome waves his bicorn at a rowboat in the bay

Fight between officers in the Ward Room, HMS Victory
Lt. Newcome attacking Captain Clackit with a chair while other officers in nightgowns emerge from their cabins, HMS Victory. Clackit had stabbed Newcome with his sword

Midshipman Newcome and Spunyarn drinking Malaga wine
Midshipman Newcome and Masters Mate Spunyarn drinking black strap or Malaga wine at the Navy Tavern, at the summit of Scud Hill, Gibraltar. Widow Cummings brings more wine, a monkey sits on a cannon

Midshipman Newcome meets crew from HMS Victory at Sally Port, Gibraltar. Masters Mate Spunyarn falls in the sea at the dock, a soldier guards the Sally Port

Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar

Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. Sextants, pistols and muskets hang from hooks on the walls, a tub of grog on the floor. The Cockpit

Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807

Florence Mills in Lew Leslies Blackbirds at the London Pavi
Advertising brochure for Florence Mills in Lew Leslies Blackbirds at the London Pavilion, 1926 Date: 1926

Phyllis Bedells in the Versailles sceve at the Alhambra
Phyllis Bedells in the Versailles scene of the Alhambra revue Johnny Jones, London, 1920 Date: 1920

Johnny Hughes, English boxer
Johnny Hughes (1882-1953), English flyweight boxer. Date: circa 1900s

Music cover, Betty Sands, by John Sinclair
Music cover, Betty Sands, composed by John Sinclair. 1865

Doing the Lambeth Walk in Hollywood, 1938
Oi! Dixie Dunbar (Christina Dunbar 1919-1991) and Johnny Downs (1913-1994) doin the Lambeth Walk at the Baby Party given by the Westside Tennis Club of Hollywood. Date: 1938

Royal Variety Performance 1965
A dozen of the 21 acts lined up for the Royal Variety Performance 1965. From left, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers, Shirley Bassey, Jack Benny, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dusty Springfield

Hawker Fury I, K373?, and Johnny Kent

American Gangsters - Al Capone and others
American Gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s: Al Capone, Jack McGurn, " Bugs" Moran, Johnny Torrio, Jerry O Connor, " Spike" O Donnell, Ralph Capone, Dion O Banion and Frankie Rio

Punch Cartoon 1899
The open mouth : or, the integrity of China. The British Lion and the Russian Bear try to get their hands on a scared Johnny Chinaman

John Burgoyne (1722-1792). Colored engraving
John Burgoyne (1722-1792). British General and playwright. Engraving in The American Revolution. Colored

Frank Wootton
Francis Leonard Wootton (1893 1940), known as " Frank" or " Frankie", and sometimes referred to as " The Wonderboy"

The homing Waltz - Music Sheet Cover by Tommie Connor and Johnny Reine, broadcast and recorded by Dickie Valentine. A photo/portrait of Dickie Valentine. Date: circa 1952

Johnson, JEJ Johnny Wg Cdr and Spitfire

King George V & Prince of Wales at Lords cricket ground
King George V and Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor), pictured at Lords cricket ground where its centenary was being celebrated in June 1914

Caricature of Johnny Gideon and Charley Head
Caricature of Johnny Gideon (aka E Manuel), playwright, and Charley Head, theatre manager and bookmaker. 1883

Johnny Reiff, jockey Date: 1900

Johnny Pringle had a little pig, It was very little, so not very big: As it was playing on a dunghill

Rosaline - Music Sheet Cover by Tommie Connor and Johnny Reine, broadcast and recorded by Lee Lawrence. An illustration with a photo of Lee Lawrence on the left bottom. Date: circa 1951

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