Ragtime Collection

Music cover, Whistling Rufus, by Kerry Mills
Music cover, Whistling Rufus, a characteristic march which can be used effectively as a two step, polka or cake walk, ragtime music by Kerry Mills Date: 1899

Irving Berlin (1888 - 1889), American composer and musician, known as the King of Ragtime at the time this photograph was taken and he appeared in the revue

A band, most of whom are wearing disguise of heavy eyebrows and moustaches, presumably a gimmick during a performance, or just for the hell of it

Hullo Ragtime! at the London HIppodrome
The Beauty Chorus of the London Hippodrome, led by the star of their popular revue, Hullo Ragtime! walking along the gangplank from the stage, over the orchestra and through the stalls

Evelyn Nesbit and Mr Clifford
Evelyn Nesbit, aka Mrs Harry Thaw, pictured with Mr. Clifford with whom she was performing at the London Hippodrome revue, Hello Ragtime in 1913

Turkey Trot, The Agony of Terpsichore
Page from The Bystander showing Oscar and Suzette demonstrating various steps from the new ragtime dance, the Turkey Trot, which they were performing at the London Hippodrome in 1912

Music cover, Any Rags? by Thomas Allen, sung by Rachel Lowe. A ragtime schottische written in 1902. Date: circa 1900s

WW1 - Comic Postcard - K-Nut in a tuxedo
WW1 - Before conscription into the army was introduced, a certain class of young men existed, for whom everything was " too much bally trouble" or " too much fag." They were

Ragtime, Arab horse decorated with WW1 medals
Ragtime, also known as Raggie, was a grey Arab horse, pictured here with his five medals displayed on his brow band. Three were for service during World War One, one for the Arab Revolt

Music Cover, Cat on Hot Bricks
Music cover, Cat on Hot Bricks, a Rollicking Rag for Piano by Ezra Read. 1922

Group of people in ragtime fancy dress
A group of people in ragtime style fancy dress, including a cowboy on a mule, two policemen, men in drag, a pierrot, a chef, and a few blacked-up faces. Date: 1920s

Alexanders Ragtime Band
" ALEXANDERs RAGTIME BAND" A ragtime jazz band in a bandstand; music sheet for the famous song by Irving Berlin. Date: 1912

Music cover, Rag-Time Crazy sung by Florence Thurston
Music cover, Rag-Time Crazy, written by R M Marks, composed by John Neat, sung by Florence Thurston. 1910

Music cover, Postmans Holiday Ragtime (Le facteur en ballade), composed by Ezra Read. circa 1895

The Four Hundred Club by H. M. Bateman
By Our Untamed Artist: With The Four Hundred. Brought into being by Londons desire for later hours: The Four Hundred Club - some caricatures

Sheet Music That Ragtime Suffragette. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1913, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, presented That Ragtime Suffragette, with music by Nat D. Ayer & lyrics by Harry Williams

Popular music - ragtime in the home in 1906
Incongruous glimpse of a stately home music room, with the upper class occupants enjoying the popular music of the day: ragtime

The Bioscope cinema
A scene inside the Bioscope cinema in Vauxhall Bridge Road, London with a pianist playing ragtime on the piano to accompany the silent movies

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