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Music Collection (page 17)

Background imageMusic Collection: Johannes Brahms and Adele Strauss

Johannes Brahms and Adele Strauss
Johannes Brahms, German composer, and Adele Strauss, wife of Johann Strauss II, at Bad Ischl, Austria. circa 1898

Background imageMusic Collection: London Ragged School, Battersea 1890s

London Ragged School, Battersea 1890s
The London Ragged Schools Union was established in April 1844 to combine resources in the city, providing free education, food, clothing, lodging and other home missionary services for poor children

Background imageMusic Collection: Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, Dalys Theatre

Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, Dalys Theatre
Yvonne as Astarte, the Goddess of the Moon, at Dalys Theatre, London. Yvonne was a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, and music by Jean Gilbert and Vernon Duke (Dukelsky)

Background imageMusic Collection: George Morris inventor of the 12 volt electric Welsh Harp

George Morris inventor of the 12 volt electric Welsh Harp
George Morris inventor of the 12 volt portable electric Welsh Harp, testing his invention in the hills of Snowdonia, North Wales Date: 1988

Background imageMusic Collection: WW1 - Four Gurkha Bagpipe Pipers - British Indian Army

WW1 - Four Gurkha Bagpipe Pipers - British Indian Army forces on the Western Front in France. Date: 1915

Background imageMusic Collection: Performers of the Folies Bergere, Paris, France

Performers of the Folies Bergere, Paris, France - seemingly on a giant musical carousel set with horses. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageMusic Collection: Promotional card for Margarita Spanish Restaurant, London

Promotional card for Margarita Spanish Restaurant, London
Promotional postcard for the Margarita Spanish Restaurant, 17 Cork Street, London. - Spectacular Cabaret - Spanish Music and Dance featuring Alec Alexander and his music (during Dinner and Dancing)

Background imageMusic Collection: Daisy Dormer music hall singer 1883-1947

Daisy Dormer music hall singer 1883-1947
Daisy Dormer (Kezia Beatrice Stockwell) music hall singer and pantomime favourite. Here as Maid Marion in ?Babes in the Wood?. Music hall stars often performed their hit songs in pantomime

Background imageMusic Collection: Madam I?Oma music hall mystic and clairvoyante

Madam I?Oma music hall mystic and clairvoyante
Madam I?Oma Egyptian music hall mystic and ?genuine? clairvoyante. ?Never known to fail.? Head and shoulders portrait. Date: circa 1919

Background imageMusic Collection: Vesta Victoria music hall comic singer 1873-1951

Vesta Victoria music hall comic singer 1873-1951
Vesta Victoria (Victoria Lawrence) music hall singer and character comedienne. Born in Leeds but affected a cockney stage persona. Demure pose with hands in fur muff

Background imageMusic Collection: Ada Reeve music hall singer 1874-1966

Ada Reeve music hall singer 1874-1966
Ada Reeve (Adelaide Mary Reeve) music hall singer, pantomime favourite, stage and screen actress. Wearing full length pleated skirt and high black hat with ostrich feather. Holding long gloves

Background imageMusic Collection: Malvina Dunreath music hall singer and long boot dancer

Malvina Dunreath music hall singer and long boot dancer. In costume, wearing ?little girl? knee length white dress with full skirt. Hair in long plaits with large bow

Background imageMusic Collection: Edna Mayne music hall toe and sand dancer

Edna Mayne music hall toe and sand dancer
Edna Mayne music hall toe dancer and sand dancer. The sand dance was an eccentric dance with exaggerated movements while dressed in an approximation of Egyptian dress. Date: circa 1911

Background imageMusic Collection: Yvette Guilbert music hall singer 1865-1944

Yvette Guilbert music hall singer 1865-1944
Yvette Guilbert (Emma Laure Guilbert) French music hall singer. Known as a ?diseuse? for her monologue-like patter songs. Here at her dressing-table preparing for a performance

Background imageMusic Collection: Bessie Bellwood music hall singer 1856-1896

Bessie Bellwood music hall singer 1856-1896
Bessie Bellwood (Catherine Mahoney) music hall singer who engaged with her audience and had a reputation for putting down the toughest of hecklers. Carte de visite advertising Taunus table water

Background imageMusic Collection: May Lilian Levey music hall male impersonator

May Lilian Levey music hall male impersonator
May Lilian Levey male impersonator, dancer, pantomime principal boy. Here dressed in top hat and tails with cane. Called herself the ?premier male character comedienne?

Background imageMusic Collection: Louie Tracy music hall male impersonator

Louie Tracy music hall male impersonator
Louie Tracy male impersonator dressed as a man about town with top hat and cane. ?Faultlessly attired, by everyone admired?. Billed as the ?Dapper, Dandy Boy?. Signed card. Date: circa 1910

Background imageMusic Collection: Pauline Travis music hall male impersonator

Pauline Travis music hall male impersonator
Pauline Travis male impersonator billed as ?the new male impersonator? in 1915. Dressed as a man about town wearing evening suit, white waistcoat, top hat and monocle. Signed card. Date: circa 1915

Background imageMusic Collection: Ida Barr music hall singer 1882-1967

Ida Barr music hall singer 1882-1967
Ida Barr (Maud Barlow) music hall singer and burlesque actress. With Wee Georgie Wood in this image. Signed card. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageMusic Collection: Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, comic singer and dancer

Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, comic singer and dancer
Daisy Jerome music hall mimic, toe dancer and wooden shoe dancer. A comic singer with a reputation for sauciness. Here depicted in a toe dancing pose wearing ballet shoes

Background imageMusic Collection: Lottie Collins music hall singer and dancer 1865-1910

Lottie Collins music hall singer and dancer 1865-1910
Lottie Collins (Charlotte Louisa Collins) music hall singer and dancer. Famous for singing Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay accompanied by a wild skirt dance with high kicks exposing stockings held up by

Background imageMusic Collection: Cecilia Loftus music hall mimic 1876-1943

Cecilia Loftus music hall mimic 1876-1943
Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus music hall mimic. Daughter of Marie Loftus music hall singer. In costume of long black fitted dress with full skirt, long black gloves and hat. Holding a tambourine

Background imageMusic Collection: Kitty Lord music hall vocalist

Kitty Lord music hall vocalist. Began working life as a servant and progressed to living in a house in Regents Park. Performed worldwide between 1894 and 1915 including Egypt and Argentina

Background imageMusic Collection: Wee Georgie Wood music hall comedian and actor 1894?-1979

Wee Georgie Wood music hall comedian and actor 1894?-1979
Wee Georgie Wood comedian, actor and writer. Here dressed as Vesta Tilley in uniform with cigar and cane. Card entitled Vesta Tilley. Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageMusic Collection: Sisters Warwick music hall trick cyclists

Sisters Warwick music hall trick cyclists
The Sisters Warwick music hall trick and acrobatic cyclists. Five women dressed in knee length full white skirts with short white jackets, large hats with decorative veiling and flat shoes

Background imageMusic Collection: Dickinson & Johnson music hall Crystal Tank artistes

Dickinson & Johnson music hall Crystal Tank artistes
Alice Dickinson and Queenie Johnson music hall swimmers and tank performers. High divers and ornamental swimmers. ?Wonderful performances in a small tank.? Date: circa 1904

Background imageMusic Collection: Vesta Tilley music hall male impersonator 1864-1952

Vesta Tilley music hall male impersonator 1864-1952
Vesta Tilley (Matilda Alice Powles) male impersonator, actress and pantomime star. Dressed in costume as an Eton schoolboy with bum-freezer jacket and top hat

Background imageMusic Collection: Winifred Ward music hall male impersonator 1880-1975

Winifred Ward music hall male impersonator 1880-1975
Winifred Ward male impersonator and pantomime principal boy. In costume for ?Jack Horner? pantomime, Princes Theatre, Bristol. Wearing light coloured suit with trouser turn-ups

Background imageMusic Collection: Hetty King music hall male impersonator 1883-1972

Hetty King music hall male impersonator 1883-1972
Hetty (Hettie) King (Winifred Emms) in pantomime costume as Aladdin. Seated on table. Elaborate hat with feathers, Chinese-style satin jacket with shorts, tights and satin shoes with large bow

Background imageMusic Collection: Late 19th century - young Japanese women playing game

Late 19th century - young Japanese women playing game
Vintage 19th century studio portrait, Japan

Background imageMusic Collection: Charles Coborn, The Great Comedian - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - a

Charles Coborn, The Great Comedian - The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - a portrait drawn by himself Date: 20th century

Background imageMusic Collection: Lady riding side-saddle on a horse stuck in a fence

Lady riding side-saddle on a horse stuck in a fence during a fox hunt, 19th century. Mrs Lucy Somerville urges her horse Leotard out of the briars while Facey Romford and other huntsmen watch

Background imageMusic Collection: King Charles II hiding up an oak tree in Boscobel

King Charles II hiding up an oak tree in Boscobel Wood, after the Battle of Worcester, 1651. Parliamentarian or Roundhead soldier interrogate a local Royalist family. The Royal Oak

Background imageMusic Collection: Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, sitting

Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, sitting on his bed throne with scimitar and hookah pipe. Princes to the right, court clerks at left, and other courtiers

Background imageMusic Collection: The arch of Laodicea in Syria, near Latakia

The arch of Laodicea in Syria, near Latakia
View of the ruins of the hexagonal court in the Heliopolis, Temple of Baalbek, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. Mistakenly labeled Arco di Laodicea

Background imageMusic Collection: Man in loose fitting coat, waistcoat, trousers and boots

Man in loose fitting coat, waistcoat, trousers and boots
Man in loose fitting coat of grey cloth with velvet collar, pink-and-white check waistcoat, hazelnut colour trousers and soft boots. Handcoloured lithograph by E

Background imageMusic Collection: Music Cover, Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)

Music Cover, Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)
Music cover, Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz), Judy Garland, words by E Y Harburg, music by Harold Arlen. 1939

Background imageMusic Collection: Victorian Greeting Card - Mice Musicians

Victorian Greeting Card - Mice Musicians
Four mice musicians sitting on a bench playing musical instruments. Date: circa 1890

Background imageMusic Collection: The Song the Kettle is Singing

The Song the Kettle is Singing (in a dear little place called home) - written and composed by Worton David and Lawrence Wright - sung with enormous success by Miss Florrie Forde and Miss Dora Lyric

Background imageMusic Collection: Toy Theatre, Pollocks New Stage Orchestra

Toy Theatre, Pollocks New Stage Orchestra. 19th century

Background imageMusic Collection: Music cover, Annie Laurie or Royal Scots Quadrilles

Music cover, Annie Laurie or Royal Scots Quadrilles, with a view of Dundee, Scotland. Introducing the Popular Airs of Annie Laurie (Campbells Are Coming, Highland Laddie, Logie O Buchan)

Background imageMusic Collection: Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander Henderson

Cartoon, Louis Engel and Alexander Henderson
Cartoon, Mr Louis Engel (musician and music critic) and Mr Alexander Henderson (theatre owner and director) - I ll have my bond! (A reference to Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.) 1885

Background imageMusic Collection: Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs

Medieval comedian playing bellows and tongs
Vignette of a comedian holding bellows and tongs as if playing a fiddle, 14th century manuscript. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Background imageMusic Collection: Natives of the Kingdom of Kongo playing music and dancing

Natives of the Kingdom of Kongo playing music and dancing
Natives of the Kingdom of Kongo (Congo) playing various musical instruments and dancing. A gourd-resonated xylophone marimba, a drum ngamba, double bell longa, and two percussion scrapers

Background imageMusic Collection: Columbia Phonograph Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Columbia Phonograph Factory, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Columbia Phonograph Company Factory (later Columbia Records), Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1915

Background imageMusic Collection: Scots Guard playing the bagpipes

Scots Guard playing the bagpipes. circa 1908

Background imageMusic Collection: Zazel Valses, by Charles Dubois

Zazel Valses, by Charles Dubois
Promotional music sheet for Zazel Valses of 1877 by Charles Dubois. One of these waltzes was used to accompany her act which included being fired from a cannon

Background imageMusic Collection: Fare you well Daisy Bell, by Harry Dacre

Fare you well Daisy Bell, by Harry Dacre
Promotional music sheet for Fare You Well Daisy Bell, written by Harry Dacre and sung by Lady Mansel and Miss Nora Gordon. Written in 1894, this was the sequel to the very famous Daisy Bell



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