Singer Collection (page 35)

Greenlanders singing combat, c. 1800
Natives of Greenland gather outdoors for a singing contest. Date: c. 1800

Street music: A street singer, 1857
A passing child shows charity to an old street singer, placing money in his hat in appreciation for his music. Date: 1857

Street music: a ballad singer
The ballad singer. " He is your only performer that requires not many entreaties for a song; for he will chant, without asking, to a street cur or a parish post."

The singer Helen Morgan, New York, late 1920s
The singer, film star. Actress and cabaret hostess and entertainer Helen Morgan, New York, late 1920s Date: 1920s

Street music: A November day, 1872
Three weary street musicians ply their trade on a rainy day in November. Date: 1872

The Young Ones, rock and roll band, Walton, Essex
Three guitarists, a drummer and a vocalist who formed The Young Ones rock and roll band in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1963

English soprano Miss Sylva (Sylvia) Van Dyck

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

Montenegrin soldiers singing warsongs
Montenegrin soldiers singing war songs outdoors, by the light of the moon

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

Street music: a blind ballad singer, 1815
A blind chaunter of old ballads, shown here accompanying his voice by playing upon a cat gut string drawn over a tea canister, and tied at both ends with a mop stick. Date: 1815

A timekeeper: singers in 1831
A robed choirmaster beats time whilst the choir sing lustily. Date: 1831

Singer Building, New York, USA Date: circa 1920s

Singer and orchestra, 1871
A female singer performs on stage, accompanied by a mixed orchestra and choir, 1871. Date: 1871

Emmy Destinn - Opera Star
Emmy Destinn (in Czech - Destinnova) - opera star in Europe and New York (1878-1930). Date: circa 1908

Miss Greenfields concert at Stafford House
Grand concert given for the benefit of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the negro vocalist known as " the black swan"

Adenes le Roi, French troubadour
Adenes le Roi(c. 1240-c. 1300), French trouvere, performs to an audience of medieval ladies out of doors Date: 13th century

Chamber music
A group of chamber musicians rehearse around a piano in a domestic setting. Date: 18th century

Village choir practice
The Village choir practice. Date: 1871

Singers - bas relief by Luca della Robbia
Bas relief of singers by Luca della Robbia - Museo di S. Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy Date: 15th century

Bootmakers in Cyprus
Making traditional Cypriot heavy boots in Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Singer Le Mans
Singer 1.5 litre Le Mans two- seater has indeed performed well on the Le Mans circuit, where sturdy build is as important as high performance. Date: 1936

Millie Legarde
MILLIE LEGARDE Popular actress-singer. Date: CIRCA 1904-7

Pierre Dupont Photo
PIERRE DUPONT French popular singer whose famous song is I have two great cows in my cowshed, photographed in 1865. Date: CIRCA 1865

Miss Octavia Barry
An almost full-length portrait of Miss Octavia Barry, a popular singer, in a colourful costume, with a feather fan in her hand. Date: early 20th century

George V and Albert I, Furnes, Belgium, WW1
King George V of Britain and King Albert I of Belgium, reviewing Belgian troops at Furnes during the First World War. Date: December 1914

Jessie Matthews, British singer and dancer
Jessie Matthews (1907-1981), British singer and dancer of stage and screen, wearing her sparkling " Over My Shoulder" costume. Date: 1930s

Dorothy Dickson (1893 1995) American-born, London-based theater actress and singer, playing Penny in Careless Rapture at Drury Lane Theatre, London. 1937

Singer 11 Saloon
The Singer 11 Saloon doesn t look exciting but incorporates a number of advanced design features, such as a four-speed synchromesh gearbox and a fluid flywheel. Date: 1936

Heyst sur Mer, Belgium - A Troubadour Date: 1923

Opera singer as Mignon
An unidentified opera singer in the role of the gipsy Mignon in the opera of the same name by Ambroise Thomas, first performed in 1866, based on Goethes novel, Wilhelm Meister

India - Songstress from Lucknow
India - Beegun Songstress from Lucknow with an extremely exotic water pipe (nargile) Date: circa 1910s

Smiling woman holding a bouquet
A smiling woman holding a bouquet -- possibly an actress or singer. Date: early 20th century

Marthe Chenal Photo
MARTHE CHENAL French singer, in her time the most celebrated singer in France, frequently required to sing the Marseillaise on state occasions : in 1918. Date: 1881 - 1947

Aristide Bruant Photo
ARISTIDE BRUANT French singer who came to personify the night life of Montmartre and the world of cafe satire, photo of 1901. Date: 1851 - 1925

Leslie Hutchinson
Leslie Hutch Hutchinson (1900 - 1969), born in Grenada and one of the biggest cabaret stars of the 1920s and 30s. Pictured in caricature in 1953 while playing a season at the London society

Lily Elsie on her wedding day, 1911
Front cover of The Sphere featuring Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962) popular theatre actress and singer an star of The Merry Widow

South Devon Hunt Ball
Singer Betty Miller with bandsmen and dancers at the South Devon Hunt Ball, in Torquay Town Hall. Date: 1954

The Senorita Ovilia Olivarsz by Val L Estrange
Ovilia Olivarsz - photographed by Val l Estrange The Senorita Ovilia Olivarsz, a talented young Spanish singer, daugther of Don Carlos de Ortuza

Music Hall performer, actress and singer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) - pictured with a large German Shephard dog. Date: circa 1910

Gracie Fields and her dog Ming
The English singer and actress, Gracie Fields (1898-1979), with her dog Ming, sitting at the top of a slide. Date: 1938

Marta Eggerth (1912 - ) singer and actress from the stage and film. Date: 1934

Yvonne Printemps (Madame Sacha Guitry)
The Wittiest and Prettiest Light-Comedy Actress in all of France The actress Yvonne Printemps (1894-1977) photographed from the front and in profile

Blind Hannah Brentford, 1827
Hannah Brentford, blind musician of Bunhill-row, shown here aged 24 giving a street performance of hymns, accompanied by her violin

Women refugees sewing army clothing, Baghdad, WW1
Women refugees sewing army clothing in Baghdad, Mesopotamia (now Iraq) during the First World War. One woman is using a Singer automatic sewing machine. Date: 1917

Jenny Lind in New York, 1850
Singer Jenny Lind is greeted with rapture when she appearanced at the Castle Garden Theatre in New York. Date: September 1850

Rue Saint Vincent - Old Montmartre, Paris
An itinerant singer, his guitar strapped to his back, strolls along Rue Saint Vincent - Montmartre, Paris, France. Date: circa 1910s

Marie Lloyd on cover of Sporting & Dramatic News
Marie Lloyd, born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood (1870 - 1922), British music hall singer, entertainer and comedienne. A global superstar in her day commanding the highest salary of any entertainer

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