Sensational Collection

Native American / Geronimo
Chiricahua Apache leader who led a sensational campaign against the whites (1885-6). His Indian name is Goyathlay which translates as the one who yawns. (Right in photo.) Date: 1829 - 1909

Christian Dior sketching a fashion design, 1948
In 1947 Christian Dior (1905-1957) created a sensational collection labelled the New Look. His designs centred around gowns with an 18 inch waist, which focused attention on the bust and hips

Card Game - The Game of Suffragette
The Game of Suffragette was devised and produced by the Kensington branch of the Womens Social & Political Union. It was announced in the November 1907 issue of the Unions publication

Welles and Newsmen 1938
Orson Welles speaks with newsmen, 30 October 1938, after the sensational broadcast of a dramatised version of the book by the Mercury Theatre, NY

Daredevil Diver Leslie Gadsby, Shanklin Pier, Isle of Wight and his variety of crazy dives, including a 90ft dive in a sack, a 45ft long arm balance

Photograph of the Loch Ness Monster
A photograph of the Loch Ness Monster taken by Hugh Gray

Record Sleeve, Pinky and Perky
78rpm Record Sleeve, Pinky and Perky, the sensational TV singing stars. 1958

Leonzo Bros. sensational artists and the great dog, Tiger. Date c1879

Sketches at the Crippen trial
The Most Sensational Trial for Many Years. Sketches in court at the trial of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, accused of (and later hanged for) the murder of his wife Cora

Hull Fair Sideshow / 1958
Sensational sideshow at Hull Fair, run by the Testo family (left to right: Dolly, Amy, and George)

Zazel, Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London
Zazel (Rossa Matilda Richter), female acrobatic performer and human cannonball, at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London, with verses from Punch magazine. 1877

Cartoon, EDITOR SEEKING DIRT
Cartoon, a penny press editor rakes for sensational claptrap in the muddy stream of twaddle and mock morality, oblivious of the angel who bids him search for Truth. Date: 1867

Frontispiece to Michelet's LA SORCIERE [1911 edition] with portrait of the author and a depiction of sensational goings-on, matching his somewhat extravagant text Date: 1911

Alda and Doret, acrobatic performers, sensational, unique, and thrilling, the act without duplicate Date: 1934

Les Terrianos, acrobatic troupe, really sensational Date: 1934

The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power, freelance journalist
The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman), freelance journalist. who earned notoriety as the author of the Great Kitchener Yarn - Power claimed to have brought

An Amazing Seance and an Exposure
Cover design, An Amazing Seance and an Exposure, by Sydney A Moseley, introduction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1919

Maud Allan as Salome
Maud Allan in her famous role as Salome, holding aloft the head of John the Baptist. Photograph reproduced in The Bystander which comments on the scandal her erotic portrayal of a religious subject

MUCK-RAKING JOURNALISTS
Cartoon satirising the muck- raking of sensational journalism Date: 1906

Tallulah Bankhead in The Green Hat
Scene from the stage adaptation of Michael Arlens novel, The Green Hat at the Adelphi Theatre in 1924. The lead role of Iris was played by Tallulah Bankhead (seen right)

A sensational portrait of the stage star Juliette Compton, who is appearing in the new play The Dancers at Wyndhams Theatre, London, 1923

Gaston and Andree, London (1926)
The sensational adagio and acrobatic dancers Gaston and Andree, London (1926) Date: 1926

Geronimo Hunting Buffalo
GERONIMO, Apache leader who led a sensational campaign against the whites (1885-6). Here holding a rifle, on horseback, during a buffalo hunt. Date: 1829 - 1909

Mr. Cockings Parachute
Poster for The Casket July 29 1837 advertising A History of Parachutes recording a full description of Mr. Cockings Parachute, and of its Ascent, and all the Particulars of its Disastrous Descent

Soho, London - Paul Barnes Hairdresser, offering a sensational 30-minute shampoo and set, no waiting. 1973

Circus Acrobats - Edy Ruth and Francy
Edy Ruth and Francois (Francy) Edouard - Belgian aerial Circus Acrobats (Trapeze artists) - performing their sensational aerial act. Date: circa 1930s

Caricature of Augustus Harris and Henry Pettitt
Caricature of Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, and Henry Alfred Pettitt (1848-1893), British actor and dramatist -- Never mind, Pettitt

Alfred Dreyfus
ALFRED DREYFUS French soldier, wrongfully accused of espionage and condemned to Devils Island; eventually exonerated after a series of sensational trials. Date: 1859 - 1935

Filming Vesuvius 1922
Intrepid cameramen capture a sensational view of Vesuvius, standing on the very edge of the crater. Date: 1922

Madame Steinheil at work
Marguerite Jeanne " Meg" Japy Steinheil, Lady Abinger (1869 - 1954), French woman famous for her many love affairs with important men

The Caillaux trial by Paul Renouard
Madame Henriette Caillaux, wife of finance minister Joseph Caillaux, who in 1914 shot Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro for attacking Caillauxs private life

French Circus Trick
A sensational turn at a French circus : A woman is placed inside the globe, which is then pierced with swords and rolled down a spiral shoot! Date: 1930s

Jules Michelet
JULES MICHELET French historian and poet author of a sensational book about witches. Date: 1798 - 1874

Atmospheric skyline of Edinburgh, Scotland - The Auld Reekie
Sensational Judges postcard - An atmospheric skyline of Edinburgh, Scotland - The Auld Reekie -The oldest part of the city. Date: circa 1910

The devil passes Federal road show attraction : Direct from sensational Los Angeles run. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Devil Passes at the Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara

The devil passes Direct from sensational Los Angeles run The
The devil passes Direct from sensational Los Angeles run. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Devil Passes at the Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, Calif

The famous Rentz Santley Novelty and Burlesque Co. first time in America : the sensational scene, gay life in Paris, introducing Jardine Mabile Dance. Date 1890

Morrisions production of the new sensational melo-drama, The Indian. Date c1897

Lost in the desert the sensational event of the year : a drama on new and original lines : by Owen Davis. Date c1900

The sensational comedy-drama taken from life, Kidnapped in New York by Howard Hall. Date c1899

Federal Theatre on Treasure Island Swing mikado A cast of 100 : Sensational success : Hot from New York : The big hit of the Golden Gate International Exposition

Poster advertising The Sorrows of Satan

EDITOR SEEKING DIRT
A penny press editor rakes for sensational claptrap in the muddy stream of twaddle and mock morality oblivious of the angel who bids him search for Truth Date: 1867

COCK LANE
The street was made famous in the 18th century by a sensational ghost story - which turned out to be a hoax

A THRILLER
A young women, cigarette holder perched artfully between her lips reads a sensational novel, her eyes wide at the contents

Maggy Rouff Spring Fashion Show, 1948
Madame Maggy Besancaon de Wagner adjusting the necklace on one of her models, 1948. In 1947 Christian Dior created a sensational collection labelled the New Look

The Leap Frog Railway
An amusing illustration of the latest sensational railway design, the Leap Frog railway. The railway consists of a track about five hundred feet long

Mr George Lewis
GEORGE HENRY LEWIS Society lawyer. Acted in many sensational Victorian cases and eventually represented the Prince of Wales and other members of society

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