Peg Collection (page 2)

Play / Manners / O my Heart
A girl carrying a white dog is depicted behind a huge red heart on the poster of this play be John Hartley Manners. Date: 1912

Roof Tiler Lays Slates
Roof tilers at work laying on the slates. Date: 1930s

Peg Woffington / Shury
(MARGARET) PEG WOFFINGTON Actress, as Mrs Ford in Shakespeares The Merry Wives of Windsor Date: 1714? - 1760

Peg O My Heart by J Hartley Manners
Promotional postcard for Peg O My Heart by J. Hartley Manners. First produced in England at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne, 5th October and Comedy Theatre, 10th October 1914

Nautical Terms Illustrated - Anchored by Harold Earnshaw
Illustration showing an old sea salt finding himself in a bit of a fix after his wooden legs has caught in a drain grill and snapped

Tatler cover - Laurette Taylor reading The Tatler
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney

Laurette Taylor
Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney, pictured at the time she was appearing in New York in Out There

Little girl hanging out washing, by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in red hanging out the washing, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Moss Bros summer suits for men 1934
Summer suits of fine quality in attractive new seasons materials, ready for immediate wear. 1934

Chinese Fiddles - Two kinds of Saw Chine or Chinese fiddles are shown here. The first is a Saw Duang, identified by the jewels around one of th pegs

Peg o my heart Love, laughter, romance! Peg o my heart Love
Peg o my heart Love, laughter, romance!. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Peg o my Heart at the Pickering Park Playhouse, San Bernardino, Calif. showing a woman carrying a dog

Street music: French fiddler and wife
A one legged beggar playing the fiddle in the street, while his wife plays the bones. Date: 17th century

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Three little girls in straw bonnets on a village green, with a shuttlecock and battledore, a skipping rope and a ball. Their names are Polly, Peg and Poppety. first published 1879

Helping Mother hang up the washing
Two children Helping Mother hang up the washing. 19th century

Croquet Winner 1913
A woman wins the game by hitting the ball against the peg. Date: 1913

Peg Woffington
Suggestion for a fancy dress costume for a late Victorian party goer - Peg Woffington, a well known Irish actress of Georgian London

The launching of the Constantinople Lifeboat
An elder lifeboatman lifts his hammer to strike out the holding peg to launch the Constantinople lifeboat and its team of lifeboatmen down a wooden ramp. The boat is called the Shellu

Japanese juggler at St. Martins Hall
The Japanese performer and famous peg-top-man, Ja-En-See, spins his top with a string wound round it and contrives to make it go through such nimble

Racial / Eskimos / Ross Exp
John Rosss arctic expedition: Native Eskimo friends of Ross and his expedition. L to R: Shulanina, Tulluachiu and Tirikshiu

Street Puppeteer & Dog
A street musician with dancing dog and two small marionette puppets attached between a peg and his knee

Windmill, Ellington
Peg Mill, at Ellington in Huntingdonshire, England

Peg Woffington / Hogarth
(MARGARET) PEG WOFFINGTON English actress

Dickens / Mutual Friend
Silas Wegg - rascalous street vendor with a wooden leg

COLLIERs COTTAGE 1873
The interior of a colliers cottage

Unruly Crowd at Hustings
An unruly crowd attend the hustings at Eatanswill

Ballad Singers
Ballad singers: the man plays the violin and hobbles on his false wooden leg, while the woman sings from the ballad sheets

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