Role Collection (page 13)

WW1 cartoon on postcard - munition worker
Expecting a rise shortly. Humorous, First World War postcard depicting a female munition worker jauntily sitting on a barrel of dynamite with a cigarette. A health and safety nightmare. Date: c.1916

Miss Jessica Borthwick aka Nell Foy
Miss Jessica Borthwick (1888-1946), aka Nell Foy, sculptor, camera woman and one of the first nurses in France during the First world War

Cravenette coats featuring the RFC girl, 1918
First World War advertisement for the Cravenette Company, offering showerproof coats, ideal for the Royal Flying Corps girl, who

Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, Londons 1st lady taxi driver, WW1
Miss Susan Dudley Ryder, who had the distinction of being Londons first female taxi driver, aving passed all the driving tests

Ladies Wanted as drivers, WW1 advertisement
Advertisement from 1918 by the British School of Motoring emphasising the urgent requirement for lady drivers between the ages of 17 and 45. Date: 1918

Lloyd Georges lady chauffeur
The Right Hon. David Lloyd Georges Napier car being started by his lady chauffeur who, according to The Tatler, handles it in a very skilful manner. Date: 1916

Sisters as recruiting sergeants for Kitcheners Army, WW1
Irish sisters, Miss Winifred and Ivy Mulroney riding together in Hyde Park, London to recruit men for Lord Kitcheners army in September 1914

Women welding bomb cases, WW1
Women workers wear goggles to fix the tops of bomb cases in position by welding during the First World War. Date: 1916

A Japanese Geisha girl - classical portrait photograph wearing a beautifully-decorated silk kimono. Date: 1910s

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Blind Mans Buff
Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - Four Geisha Girls playing a game (similar to Blind Mans Buff?) Date: circa 1905

Japan - Geisha Girls kneels at her low writing table to finish a letter Date: circa 1904

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress in Rostands L Aiglon
Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), French actress in Rostands L Aiglon in 1900, in the role of the Duke of Reichstadt. Date: 1900

Miss Constance Collier in the role of Cleopatra
Miss Constance Collier (1878-1955) - English stage and film actress and acting coach - pictured here in the role of Cleopatra. Date: circa 1910s

Beautiful Japanese Geisha Girl with parasol. Date: circa 1920s

Sarah Bernhardt in L Aiglon (2 / 2)
Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) - French stage and early film actress - used to publicise her latest role in L Aiglon (1900), by Edmond Rostand. Date: 1900

Sarah Bernhardt in L Aiglon (1 / 2)
Photograph of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) - French stage and early film actress - used to publicise her latest role in L Aiglon (1900), by Edmond Rostand. Date: 1900

London District Messenger Service - Messenger boy in distinctive uniform with cap at jaunty angle. Date: circa 1905

The Guitarist, by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760). A young woman plays a guitar, accompanied by two Harlequins, possibly a scene from the Commedia dell Arte

Somewhere in France A concert behind the lines
Somewhere in France. A concert behind the lines. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

The Communication Trench. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

In a British advanced observation post. How artillery fire is observed and corrected. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

How the Staff is informed of movements at the Front. A scene in a stately French chateau. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

The famous 4 days retreat from Mons. How the wounded helped the wounded between Le Cateau and Landrecies. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

Winter conditions in the Yser country. A scene on the snow-covered road leading to the rear. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

The King at the Front. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963)

Salvador Dali Cartoon
This cartoon appeared recently after the surrealist artist, Salvador Dali (1904-1989), had completed his portrait of Sir Laurence Olivier in his role of Richard III

East Leeds Military Hospital / Leeds Workhouse, West Yorkshi
The Leeds Union workhouse in its temporary First World War role as East Leeds Military Hospital. Uniformed soldiers stand at the entrance gatehouse which is adorned with a red cross

An actor in the role of Hachiman Taro Yoshiie : An actor in the role of Abe Sadato : An actor in the role of Sodehagi, wife of Sadato

Prince Philip in costume for Macbeth
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, pictured in costume preparing to play the role of Donalbain in Macbeth at Gordonstoun School. Date: c.1936

Heinrich Hensel (1874-1935) - a famous German Tenor, chosen by Wagner to sing the role of Parsifal at Bayreuth (1911-12). He also sang the role in the first production staged in London in 1914

T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) on a balcony
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935), British Army officer best known for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-1918

Gerald du Maurier as Arsene Lupin
Gerald du Maurier, English actor and theatrical manager, in the role of Arsene Lupin, his most successful role, played at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London in 1909. Date: 1909

Effigy of T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Carved stone effigy (detail) of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935), British Army officer best known for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against

T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) with cacti
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia, 1888-1935), British Army officer best known for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916-1918

Actor Hugh Griffith as King Lear
Hugh Emrys Griffith (19121980) - an Oscar-winning Welsh film, stage and television actor. Seen here in the role of King Lear. Date: circa 1960

Pola Negri as the Spanish Dancer
POLA NEGRI (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) in 1924, Polish film actress who specialised in femme fatale roles in silent films

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), Queen Victorias fourth son and eighth child shown reading. The most academic of the Queens sons, Leopold led a closeted existence due to his haemophilia

Jack Point in Yeoman
C Herbert Workman in the role of Jack Point, the jester, in Yeoman of the Guard

Phyllis Le Grand / Quaker
PHYLLIS LE GRAND English musical comedy actress, seen here in the role of Diane in The Quaker Girl at the Adelphi Theatre

Beerbohm Tree as Fagin
Sir HERBERT DRAPER BEERBOHM TREE English actor-manager in the role of Fagin in Oliver Twist

Childrens Doll & Teaset
A boy pretends to pour tea for a little girl and her doll

Ann Catley / Milton / Comus
Miss. Ann Catley (1745 - 1789), in the role of Euphrosyne

Four characters from Shakespeares Richard III -- Gustavus Vaughan Brooke (1818-1866, top and bottom left), Irish actor, as the Duke of Gloucester and Richard III (the same role)

Cartoon, Henry Irving and Wilson Barrett -- Mr Wilson Barrett will soon let us know that there is more than one English actor who can do justice to Shakespeare

Mr Osbaldiston in the role of Andreas Hofer, the patriotic innkeeper of a Tyrolean village at the time of an invasion by Napoleon and his army, in a play entitled Hofer, The Tell of Tyrol

Nanette Newman on location, filming in Cornwall
The actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, in the role of the Newlyn School artist Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (nee Armstrong, 1859-1912), in A Breath of Fresh Air

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