Musical Collection (page 11)

c. 1880s Japan - geishas playing musical instruments
c.1880s Japan - geishas playing the shamisen and koto musical instruments

Woman playing koto stringed musical instrument, Japan
Young woman playing a koto stringed musical instrument, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Great bell in the Chion-in Temple, Kyoto Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Reproduction of a poster for The Country Girl at Dalys Theatre in December 1902. Date: 1902

Connie Ediss (Ada Harriet Coates) - English actress
Connie Ediss (Ada Harriet Coates) (1871-1934) - English actress best known as a jovial comedian in many of the popular Edwardian musical comedies around the turn of the 20th century

Striking costumes designed by Victor Stiebel for the musical, Music in the Air, starring Mary Ellis. Date: 1933

Weapons and musical instruments of Senegambia, 18th century
Weapons, musical instrument and pipe of Senegambia, 18th century. Bow, powder horn, lance, quiver, arrow, boot, guitar and tobacco pipe

Man weaving cotton on a loom, Senegambia, 18th century. He sits with his legs in a pit, with the warp tied to a large rock, under a mat shade. A weaver. Tisserand negre

English huntswoman jumping sidesaddle over a fence, 19th century. Facey Romford unable to follow Lucy Somersville over a hedge. What matter did it make to him how she rode, confound this ugly place

Ancient Persian musical instruments
Baglama or tanbur 1, sciehizdeh 2, kemancheh or rebab 3, setar 4, scienk 5, 7, psalter 6, nefir 8, carhana 9, sciak-nefir or horn 10, sorna 11, musicar 12, dembal 13, dohol drum 14

View of the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran
View of the Shah Mosque or New Abbasi Mosque, Isfahan, Iran. Based on an illustration by Jean Chardin. Moschea reale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a woman sewing a garment. Death and the Seamstress. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen

Musical chairs
Children having fun playing musical chairs accompanied by a pianist. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1902

Xmas Carol singers
Traditional scene depicting a group of carol singers with musical accompaniment performing outside a tudor style house, inside of which is a party in full swing. Artist: CT Howard Date: circa 1908

Out of the Bottle at the London Hippodrome
Colour photograph showing scene from Out of the Bottle at the London Hippodrome. The djinn (genie)transforms the studio into an embarrassingly rich oriental palace: Tom

Lets Face It at the London Hippodrome
Spread from The Sketch covering the latest show at the London Hippodrome, Lets Face It starring Bobby Howes and Pat Kirkwood

Barnardos Boys with Rev WJ Mayers
Musical performers from Barnardos homes, accompanied by the Rev. W.J. Mayers. Date: circa 1910

Music cover, The Birth of the Blues, words by B G De Sylva and Lew Brown, music by Ray Henderson. 1926

Music cover, People Will Say We re In Love (Oklahoma) Music cover
Music cover, People Will Say We re in Love (Oklahoma!), music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein (as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London). 1943

Elisabeth of Wied, Queen of Romania
Elisabeth of Wied (1843-1916), Queen of Romania, pen name Carmen Sylva, playing the organ

Victorian Greeting Card - The Cat Orchestra
Cats playing misical instruments whilst a conductor looks on. Date: circa 1890

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in her dressing room, Hippodrome
Binnie Hale, star of the hit musical comedy Sunny at the London Hippodrome, pictured in her dressing room wearing the fetching shorts for her gymnasium scene and arranging various toys

Sketch cover, Binnie Hale in Sunny at the Hippodrome
Binnie Hale pictured on the cover of The Sketch in the gym costume she wore in the title role of the hit comedy musical, Sunny, at the London Hippodrome in 1926. Date: 1926

Victorian scrap, black musician with violin. 19th century

Silhouette, Practising a Duet. late 19th century

Silhouette, Playing Rousseaus Dream on Piano. late 19th century

Jan Kubelik, Czech violinist and composer
Jan Kubelik (1880-1940), Czech violinist and composer. 1903

Early Victorian organ, Guildhall, Londonderry, Ireland. 19th century

The Ralli Sisters - The Ruthven Twins in Shake Your Feet
Well-known socialites, the Ruthven twins, aka the Hon. Alison and the Hon. Margaret Ruthven, who briefly took the stage as the Ralli Twins in the 1920s

Frances Day in The Fleets Lit Up at the London Hippodrome
Frances Day riding a horse as Polly Brown in the musical comedy, The Fleets Lit Up at the London Hippodrome in 1938. The Sketch writes, " she gives her usual delightful, elusive

Joseph Joachim (1831 - 1907), Hungarian musician. Date: 1894

Elsie Randolph in Stand Up and Sing
Elsie Randolph (1904 - 1982), film and stage actress and entertainer, pictured wearing a rather dashing naval outfit in the hit musical Stand Up and Sing at the London Hippodrome

Jack Buchanan in Stand Up and Sing by Hynes
Jack Buchanan, star of the comedy music Stand Up and Sing at the London Hippodrome, caricatured in the role of Rocky Smith by Hynes. Date: 1931

Jack Buchanan & Vera Pearce in Stand Up and Sing by Hynes
Caricature by Hynes of Jack Buchanan and Vera Pearce performing a comedy dance in the hit musical Stand Up and Sing at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1931

Elsie Randolph in Stand Up and Sing by Hynes
Elsie Randolph in the role of Ena in the comedy musical Stand Up and Sing at the London Hippodrome in which she starred with long-time stage partner, Jack Buchanan. Caricatured by Hynes. Date: 1931

Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph Mr. Whittington, Hippodrome
Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph in a scene from Mr. Whittington, a comedy musical starring Buchanan as a modern-day Dick Whittington

Jack Buchanan in Mr. Whittington at London Hippodrome
Jack Buchanan as a modern Dick Whittington in Mr Whittington, the comedy musical at the London Hippodrome in which he starred with Elsie Randolph. Date: 1934

Binnie Hale, playing Jill in Mr Cinders
Binnie Hale (Bernice Hale Munro) (1899 - 1984), British revue artiste and actress, photographed by Sasha at the time she was playing Jill opposite Bobby Howes in the hit musical comedy Mr Cinders

Thats a Good Girl at the London Hippodrome
Sketches made by Bryan de Grineau at the London Hippodrome, where Thats a Good Girl starring Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph was playing

Peggy O Neill to star in Mercenary Mary at London Hippodrome
Peggy O Neill (1898-1960), Irish-born theatre actress and entertainer pictured with a Pekingese puppy in The Sketch at the time she was appearing in Mercenary Mary at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1926

Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph in Thats a Good Girl
Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph, stars of Thats a Good Girl at the London Hippodrome in 1928, caricatured by Sallon. They were a popular pairing

Musical knife in the Louvre, Paris, France, made of steel, with a Blessing of the Table (or Grace) engraved on the blade. The notes are for bass voice -- it is thought that the knife was part of a

Bandstand concert, Square des Epinettes, Paris, France
Bandstand concert with audience in the Square des Epinettes, 17th arrondissement, Paris, France. Date: 1910s

Yola DeFroine and Harry Denniss Dancing Dudes in London Rhapsody musical at The London Palladium. 1937

Harry Champion, legendary music hall performer
William Henry Crump (1865-1942), better known as Harry Champion, music hall composer, singer and Cockney comedian, appearing in London Rhapsody musical at the London Palladium, 1937. 1937

The London Pavilion 1878, London Palladium
The London Pavilion 1878, Crazy Gang in London Rhapsody musical at The London Palladium. 1937

The Crazy Gang, Six Broken Blossoms, London Palladium
The Crazy Gang dressed as flower sellers in Six Broken Blossoms in the shadow of Eros (at Piccadilly Circus) in London Rhapsody musical at The London Palladium. 1937

Chorus line at the London Palladium
The Chorus Line in London Rhapsody musical at The London Palladium. 1937

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