Personality Collection (page 2)

Orlando Martins (1899-1985) was a Nigerian actor who had a long and successful career in British cinema. Date: 1946

Adelaide Hall (music sheet Thats the Beginning of the End
Adelaide Hall (1901-1993) was a jazz innovator & Broaway star of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance who made her home in London in 1939

In Dahomey at the Crown Theatre in Peckham
In Dahomey was a stage revue with an African American cast that toured Britain from 1903-1904 following a successful run in Londons West End. Date: 1904

Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) celebrated American Shakesperean actor who found fame on the stage in Victorian England

The African Prince (antique print)
The African Prince Date: 1845

Personalities on the beach -- Hon Mrs Richard Norton, the wife of Lord Grantleys heir. Date: 1930

Personalities beside the pool and on the beach -- Lady Cynthia Mosley by the bathing pool, Cap d Antibes (top) and Cocktail Time

Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998) British-born conductor & composer. Mixed race daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Jasmine Bligh, television announcer
Jasmine Lydia Bligh (20 May 1913 21 July 1991), one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. Along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell

Colonel P H Fawcett
Colonel Percy H Fawcett (1867 - 1925), British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. 1932

John McCririck - Racing pundit Date: 1980s - 1990s

Sir Gordon Carter, Clerk of the Course at Ascot from 1910 to 1941. A stickler for perfection, he apparently changed his outfits five times a day during Ascot week and washed

London life front cover - The Playgirl Club
Front cover of London Life magazine with portraits of six women who featured in that issues article about the capitals playgirls - a term used by the magazine to describe women who are very strictly

Don Bradman wrestling
Australian cricketer and batsman, Don Bradman enjoying another sporting pursuit, wrestling with Jim Deakin, a well-known Australian wrestler. Date: 1931

Marasco Stigmata - 2
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 2 of 3 - the legs

Marasco Stigmata - 1
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 1 of 3 - the hands

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Aida Overton Walker (postcard)
Aida Overton Walker (1880-1914) African American vaudevillian and wife of George Walker. She was one of the stars of the stage revue In Dahomey which was produced in London in 1903. Date: 1903

Elisabeth Welch in Paris. Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933. Popular star of British musical theatre, films

Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998) British-born conductor & composer. Mixed race daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Aida Overton Walker (1880-1914) African American vaudevillian and wife of George Walker. She was one of the stars of the stage revue In Dahomey which was produced in London in 1903. Date: 1903

Elisabeth Welch signed photograph. Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933

First and Second Impressions by H. M. Bateman
The Majors speaking voice was simply charming. Maisie was rapidly succumbing to its spell. Until one day she heard him use it on parade! Cartoon by H. M

Mollie Fancher(1848-1910), known as the Brooklyn Enigma for, amongst other phenomena, her perceived ability to fast for long periods on time

Sofia Kovalevskaya - Russian Mathematician
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) - Russian female mathematician, and also the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Europe in 1889. Date: circa 1889

Mrs Charles Sweeny watching her husband play golf
Mrs Charles Sweeny, formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the Duchess of Argyll (1912 - 1993), seen watching her husband

Roger Bannister
SIR ROGER GILBERT BANNISTER CBE, neurologist and athlete best known for being the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Date: 1929 -

Caricature of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister
Superb caricature of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965) by an unknown German artist. Date: circa late 1930s

Frances Scully, Irene Rich, Tom Breneman, Sonja Henie
Popular Radio Star Tom Breneman (1901-1948), pictured with (from left) Frances Scully (TV Presenter for ABC), Irene Rich (1891-1988 - American Actress)

Marasco Stigmata - 3
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 3 of 3 - on the body

Anna Neagle - popular English actress, singer and dancer
Anna Neagle (1904-1986) - Dame Anna Neagle, DBE, born Florence Marjorie Robertson - a popular English stage and film actress and singer and dancer (see 10638893 !) Date: circa 1935

High-profile military and local personalities in Egypt
Group of high-profile military and local personalities in Egypt, posing in front of airplanes, one of them the Royal Air Force DH9 Aircraft. Date: circa 1925

The Three Graces - Wales, England and Scotland
The Three Graces - personifications of Wales, England and Scotland. Ladies in appropriate costume. Date: C.1835

Marcus Aurelius Severino (1580 - 1656) - Neapolitan medical personality

Sir Richard Collinson (1811 - 1883), a Naval personality. Date: 1877

FLUDD (1574 - 1637)
ROBERT FLUDD - Chemist and medical personality. Date: 1574 - 1637

Page design, personality, School Silhouettes
Page design for personality (plus and minus, I love, I hate), in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Warwick, hall porter of the Marlborough Club
(Mr) Warwick, the long-serving hall porter of the Marlborough Club, described by The Tatler as, probably one of the best-known men in London

Mrs Vernon Castle, 1918
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, who, with her husband Vernon Castle were known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. The pair were incredibly successful and their earnings were high

Tatler cover - Irene Castle as the Spirit of France
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. Pictured on the front cover of The Tatler as " The Spirit of France

Mrs Vernon (Irene) Castle
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as Americas Dancing Sweethearts. The pair were incredibly successful and their earnings were high

Frances Day by Olive Snell
Frances Day (1908 - 1984), born Frances Schenk, revue, cabaret, television and film actress and one of the original blonde bombshells

Daria Princess Lieven 2
DARIA (Dorothea) von Benkendorff, princess LIEVEN Wife of the Russian ambassador to Paris, society personality and friend of Wellington, Metternich and Guizot Date: 1784? - 1857

French Opera Star - Marguerite Merentie, Soprano (1880-?) Date: circa 1910

Luther Burbank - American botanist and horticulturist
Luther Burbank (1849-1926) - American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career

The Language of Hats
A French postcard describing the Language of Hats !! Date: circa 1908

Metropolitan police officer and dog with shopkeeper
A Metropolitan police officer with his Alsatian dog chats with a shopkeeper in front of his shop. late 20th century

Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970), British artist caricatured by Sirra

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