Ridiculous Gallery

A band, most of whom are wearing disguise of heavy eyebrows and moustaches

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?! Somebody appears to be holding a cardboard tuba, and many of them are holding harmonicas so perhaps this is a comedy amateur performance? B'hoys was a slang term for boys, particularly used during the First World War. Date: 1920s

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Fashionable Style - Massive hat with feather adornment

Fashionable Bulgarian Style - Pretty model wearing a massive hat with Ostrich Feathers adornment, shaped almost like eagle's wings!! She is enjoying a glass of something strong. A mild satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period. Date: circa 1910

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Caricature of Dion Boucicault and three other actors

Caricature of Dion Boucicault (?1820-1890), Irish actor and playwright -- Address to the Players. Indicating a poster behind him, he says that no actor could play Romeo with legs like that -- a reference to Henry Irving's recent production at the Lyceum Theatre in which he played Romeo. Irving is on the left; the man on the right is Augustus Harris.
1882

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