Performer Collection (page 9)

Grace Adrian, actress. 1939

Gloria Dickson, American actress
Gloria Dickson (1917-1945), American actress. 1938

Georgie Butler, actress. 1939

Faith Francis, actress. 1938

Edith Luce, actress. 1938

Dorothy Mitchell-Hedges, actress. 1939

Deanna Durbin, Canadian-born actress and singer
Deanna Durbin (1921-2013), Canadian-born actress and singer. 1938

Betty Grable, American actress, dancer, model and singer
Betty Grable (1916-1973), American actress, dancer, model and singer. 1938

Betty Furness, American actress
Betty Furness (1916-1994), American actress. 1938

Ann Dvorak, American actress
Ann Dvorak (1911-1979), American actress. 1938

Anita Louise, American film and TV actress
Anita Louise (1915-1970), American film and TV actress. 1939

Alice Faye, American actress and singer
Alice Faye (1915-1998), American actress and singer. 1938

Animal imitator, 14th century
Performers including an animal imitator in the 14th century: man with pipe and tabor dancing with a man in a stag costume

Dancer and trained bear, 10th century
Woman dancing in front of a bear chained to its master but scourged to attack, 10th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Performers and trained bears, 14th century
Juggler and trained bear, and performer with tabor drum and chained bear, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Gleemen and trained bear, 10th century
Anglo-Saxon gleemen with sticks and pipes performing with a trained bear, 10th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Medieval trained bears: Anglo-Saxon gleemen with sticks and horns peforming over a trained bear, 10th century (top), juggler with bear and drummer with chained bear, 14th century (middle)

Balancing act, 14th century
Girl balancing swords while held on a board by two men, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London

Balancing acts, 14th century
Girl balancing swords while held on a board by two men, 14th century (top), man balancing a lance on his nose, a sword on his finger, a wheel on his shoulder

Medieval contortionist
Posture master or contortionist hanging from a pole held by two men, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Medieval tumbler jumping through hoop
Tumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others onto his coat, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Medieval dancers and performers
Girl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, 13th century, man playing a pipe while dancing on stilts, 13th century (top), tumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others

Girl tumbler, 14th century
Girl backflipping accompanied by musicians playing pipes and tabor, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Sword dancing, 9th century
Two men with swords and shields performing a sword dance with a female assistant to horn music, 9th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Gleemen dancing to lyre and pipe music, 9th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876

Fools dance, 14th century
A line of fools in hoods with bells dancing the fools dance to bagpipe and regal music, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports

Dancers on stilts in the Champs Elysees. A family of street entertainers, the country folks of Landes, perform while mother bangs a drum and father directs on horseback

Matthew Skeggs, as Seignor Bumbasto, playing
Matthew Skeggs, in the character of Seignor Bumbasto, playing a broomstick instead of a cello with a bow. Skeggs was a publican and performer of musical tricks with the Choice Spirits

South-east view of a Tudor house in Sweedon s
South-east view of an old 15th-century Tudor house in Sweedons Passage, Grub Street, 1791. Formerly inhabited by Sir Richard Whittington and Sir Thomas Gresham

The Incomparable Ravel, French rope dancer
The incomparable Ravel, a guitar-playing French tightrope artist from the early 19th century, with two dancers on thick ropes

Street performer drumming with a violinist
Drummer performing tricks with drumsticks while beating a drum, accompanied by a violinist. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

Family of street entertainers performing in Paris, 1815
Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair

Indian sword swallower in Paris, 1816. An assistant holds a sword to show its length (18 inches), and another takes something from a box of tricks

Indian jugglers in Paris, 1816
Indian jugglers, 1816. The man in the centre balances a whip between his eyes, spins rings on his toes and fingers, and threads pearls on a rope with his tongue

Troubadour playing on six instruments, 1815
Troubadour playing on six instruments in front of Prussian and Scots soldiers, 1815. By moving his head, elbows and knees, he plays pan pipes, mandolin, drum, triangle

An organ grinder and a poodle with spinning machine before an audience of fashionable women in bonnets with plumes, shawls and lace dresses

Savoyard puppeteer performing with fife and drum
Savoyard boy with fife and drum makes his puppets dance in time to the music by moving his knees. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangeres Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817

The Italian Grimacier or pantomime artist
Italian street pantomime artist in grotesque wig, playing a bizarre one-string violin with balloon. This young Italian man with black eyes excels at terrible grimaces

Chinese games and acrobatics performed in Yuanmingyuang Park, Peking. Eight costumed women ride Ferris wheels perpedicularly, while male acrobats spin on rope wheels

Mexican acrobats and performers. Aztec men performing balancing acts, and two men balancing on a pole supported by a man on his back

Chinese wrestler and automaton and a tom-tom player, Qing Dynasty. Street performer wrestling with a human-size pasteboard puppet

Jack Hulbert, British comedy film, Jacks the Boy
Jack Hulbert in the British comedy film, Jacks the Boy. 1932

Ernest Shand, English performer and composer
Ernest Shand (1868-1924), English performer and composer, classical guitar player, music hall singer, actor. circa 1900s

Music cover, Thats Where the South Begins, foxtrot song, words by Jack Yellen, music by Ted Shapiro, sung with enormous success by Randolph Sutton (pictured). Date: 1930

Old Indian Scout, known as Original Texas
Old Indian Scout, aged 73, known as Original Texas, possibly a Wild West Show performer. Date: circa 1910

Music cover, Au Revoir, my little Hyacinth, words by A E Sidney Davis, music by Hermann E Darewski Junior, sung by Miss Ellaline Terriss. Date: circa 1900s

George Grossmith, Gilbert and Sullivan performer. 1892

Diana Wynyard, English actress. Date: 1934

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