Managers Collection

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Group photo, Claridges Hotel kitchen staff, Mayfair, London W1. Date: 1908

Group photo, Millwall Athletic football team
Millwall Athletic football team for the 1895-1896 season, including Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and Trainer, as well as the players themselves. circa 1895

Cartoon, theatre managers and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, theatre managers (Irving, Toole, James and Bancroft) besieging Queen Victoria at Windsor. Now that a rumour has gone abroad that Her Majesty will one more give theatrical entertainments at

Group photo, Carlton Hotel kitchen staff, London, posing on the hotel roof in November 1908. Date: 1908

Stage Effects - Fire
Victorian stage managers went to remarkable lengths to achieve realism on the stage - here, one tries to simulate the Great Fire of London

Interior office design. typical design style of the period, possibly a bank managers office Date: 1960s

Court Lees Approved School, South Godstone, Surrey. Chairman of Managers, Judge Cohen (left), and Headmaster, Denis Haydon

White Star Line, decorative endpapers, presentation book
White Star Line, decorative endpapers of presentation book. Extremely rare T.H. Ismay hardbound volume presented to the managers

Royal Coburg Theatre
The theatre was founded in 1818 by James King and Daniel Dunn (formerly managers of the Surrey Theatre in Bermondsey), and John Thomas Serres, then the marine painter to the King

Machnow eating breakfast at the London Hippodrome
Feodor Machnow, the Russian giant, pictured next to his manager and (possibly) members of the staff at the London Hippodrome, eating breakfast during his time performing there

Cartoon, The pantomime is coming
Cartoon, " The World" is withdrawn, but the pantomime is coming. Possibly a reference to an unsuccessful production coming to an end, just before the pantomime season begins

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

Cartoon, No More Closing on Ash Wednesday
Cartoon, No More Theatre Closing on Ash Wednesday - Hooray! 1885

Cartoon, Squire Bancroft and General William Booth
Cartoon, Squire Bancroft, actor-manager, and General William Booth of the Salvation Army. To think the little house should come to this! I wonder if he will make as much money here as I did

Cartoon, Mr Arthur Roberts, music hall performer
Cartoon, Mr Arthur Roberts (music hall performer) will sure to be in pocket with managers squabbling over him. 1885

Cartoon, Haymarket Theatre, London
Cartoon, Who will succeed the Bancrofts at the Haymarket? Three theatre managers look up and speculate. 1884

Cartoon, The Amenities of the Circus are positively surprising, showing London circus owners George Sanger (left) and Frederick Charles Hengler (right) with William Holland (centre)

Squire Bancroft and Marie Effie Wilton, English actors
Cartoon, Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926), English actor-manager, and his wife Marie Effie Wilton, Lady Bancroft (1839-1921), English actress and theatre manager

Great Railway strike, LNW managers and clerical staff
Great Railway strike - LNW (London and North Western) Railway managers and clerical staff loading food. 1919

D James and T Thorne, Vaudeville Theatre, London
David James (David Belasco) and Thomas Thorne, first managers of the Vaudeville Theatre, London. 1880

Cartoon, Used Up
Cartoon - Used Up - a comment on Henry Irving and the so-called legitimate theatre. 1884

Triumph motorcycle showroom, Pasadena, California, USA, with George and Hazel Butler behind the counter. Date: 1950s

Group photo, St Ives football team (Huntingdonshire)
Group photo, St Ives football team. Back row, left to right: H Mence, E Kiddle, G B Ulph, Houghton, Gifford (goalkeeper), F Russell; middle row: Freeman, H Copley, F M Warren

Charles Wyndham, actor-manager (1837-1919) pictured in The Sketch at the time of the opening of his theatre, Wyndhams Theatre in 1899

Cartoon, ringmaster and performing elephants
Cartoon, a ringmaster with two performing elephants -- the one with the long, thin moustache is the theatre manager William Holland. 1883

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

East Africa - Agency Building - white single-storey building workers sitting outside. Part of Box 249 Boswell Collection - East Coast of Africa

Cartoon, George Parkes, Elephant and Castle Theatre
Cartoon, George Parkes, the new manager of the Elephant and Castle Theatre, London. Two other local theatre managers, William Holland and Edwin Villiers say " Mind how you go, Baron". 1880

Cartoon, Thomas Thorne and David James
Cartoon, Thomas Thorne (right, 1841-1918), English actor and theatre manager, and David James (left, 1839-1893), English comic actor

Cartoon, A Dramatic Performance, showing rival theatre managers, William Holland (left) and Edwin Villiers (right), on horseback in armour, taking part in a medieval joust. 1880

Caricature of David James and Thomas Thorne
Caricature of David James (left, 1839-1893), English comic actor, and Thomas Thorne (right, 1841-1918), English actor and theatre manager, co-founders of the Vaudeville Theatre, London

Caricature, The Two Harry Ulphs, involved in the London theatre world as actors, singers and managers. 1882

Caricature, Henry Irving and J L Toole, actor-managers
Caricature, Henry Irving (1838-1905) and John Lawrence Toole (1830-1906), actor-managers. You scratch my back and I ll scratch yours. (Don t overdo it, Johnny!) 1881

Cartoon, A G Vance and fellow-theatricals Henry Irving, Squire Bancroft and J L Toole. Vance comments on the fact that they are going to visit the Prince of Wales at Marlborough House -- not to seem

Cartoon, Music Hall Licensing -- anxious moments for proprietors. 1881

Caricature of Squire Bancroft and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) and Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), both actor-managers. Bancroft is portrayed as Shylock wanting his pound of flesh

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

Group photo, Essex football team 1894
Group photo, Essex football team: Russell, Wells, Sheldrake, Porter, Brewerton, Johnson, Baker, Earle, Hughes, Mayes (Captain), Porter, Markham

Group photo, men of the MED Garage E75
Group photo, men (possibly chauffeurs, managers and owners) of the MED Garage E75. Date: circa 1914

H. J. Hitchins, manager of the Empire variety theatre in London during the late Victorian era. Date: 1929

Corona vans and drivers, Chadwell Heath, East London
Corona vans and their drivers in a depot at Chadwell Heath, East London. Corona was a popular brand of soft drinks, delivered regularly to peoples homes. Date: 20th century

Marie Lohr - a wartime actress-manageress, WW1
Marie Lohr, Australian actress (1890-1975) pictured in The Tatler at the time she had taken on the role of manager at the Globe Theatre in London where she was staging a play by W. Somerset Maugham

Percival Prentice VR210 was temporarily registered G-AKLG for an overseas sales tour. It stands in front of the old farm house which became the airport managers office

Percival Prentice. To the left is the old farm house which became the airport managers office

The Union Jack Hockey Club. Canada
The Union Jack Hockey Club. Junior O.H.A. champions of Western Ontario 1914. In the centre of the picture is Frank Selke, times winner of the Stanley cup as manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs

Rusco & Holland, sole proprietors and managers more money invested than any minstrel firm in the world : the progressive minstrel managers. Portraits of WA Rusco and Jno. J. Holland. Date c1899

Dubuque, Iowa, National Association of Managers signboard. Date 1940 Apr

Aleppo, Syria - Dancer travelling by Camel
Famed dancer and entourage including musicians travel across the desert close to Aleppo, Syria en route to their next gig. Date: circa 1910s

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