Stars Collection (page 2)

Max Factor make up booklet with Hollywood stars
Rochelle Hudson and Bette Davis demonstrate how to apply powder and rouge respectively in a Max Factor promotional booklet. Date: 1937

Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, USA
Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, on the north side of the valley near the Royal Arches. Date: circa 1925

Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, USA
Night view of Paragon Park and the Schlitz Palm Garden, Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1908

Miss Columbia - Personification of the USA
Columbia - a historical and poetic name used for the United States of America and is also the name of its female personification (Miss Columbia)

WW2 - USA - Propaganda - We gave for our own, for our allies - relating to the Wartime Bond Scheme to contribute to the war effort. Date: circa 1944

Leslie Howard as RJ Mitchell in The First of the Few
Leslie Howard (1893-1943) photographed on the film set for The First of the Few, in which he played the Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell. 1942

Decorated Christmas tree with toys and food below. Date: circa 1890s

Mrs Charles Sweeny as Astrae the Star-Maiden
Mrs Charles Sweeny, formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the Duchess of Argyll (1912 - 1993), pictured as Astrae, the Star-Maiden for the Olympian Party at Claridges on 5 March 1935 in aid of

Fred and Adele Astaire
Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz (1899 - 1987), American dancer and actor pictured with his elder sister, Adele (1896 - 1981) who was his dance partner from childhood until 1932

Blunt / Ophiucus / Plate 36
The constellation of Ophiucus - the figure is that of a man wrestling with a serpent

Geocentric System
The pre-Copernican system of the Planets - Earth at the centre orbited by the other planets including the sun, and surrounded by the stars

Planet Mars seen from one of its moons
The planet Mars as seen from one of its moons, a hundred times larger than the planet Earths Moon as seen from Earth

Night slid down. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem The Gardener s
Night slid down. Illustration by Florence Harrison to Tennysons poem The Gardeners Daughter. Date: c.1920

Jack Dempsey just before defeating Jess Willard in a boxing match

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

The Immortal Hour, by Rutland Boughton, Birmingham
The Immortal Hour, music drama by Rutland Boughton from the play by Fiona MacLeod, produced by Barry V Jackson, at the Repertory Theatre, Station Street, Birmingham. circa 1921

High Above the Town by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of children with a baby fly high above a town in a winged cradle, accompanied by a fairy. c.1925

Lilyan Tashman by Olive Snell
Lilyan Tashman (October 23, 1896 March 21, 1934) American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses

Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863). American military. Portrait (1864) by J.W. King. National Portrait Gallery. Washington D.C. United States

Young girl standing at a window on a Christmas card, with a poem on the left. Date: circa 1890s

Laurette Taylor and Michael
Miss Laurette Taylor (1883-1946) American actress born Loretta Helen Clooney. She appeared in one of the most popular shows of the First World War in London, Peg O My Heart

Gaby Deslys in 5064 Gerrard
Gaby Deslys (1884 - 1920), French actress, music hall artiste and sometime lover of King Manuel II of Portugal, pictured in 1915 when she was appearing in " 5064 Gerrard." Known for her

Whittaker / Canis Major
Including the Canis Major (dog) and Lepus (hare) constellation

Peary and Cook dispute over the North Pole
Robert Peary and Frederick Cook dispute over who reached the North Pole first -- but the real question is whether either of them got there at all

The American dancing and signing duo the Hengler Sisters
The American dancing and signing duo, famous on both sides of the Atlantic, the Hengler Sisters @ 1905 Date: 1920s

Fashion design by Eva Lutyens. 1936

Film - Strike up the Band - Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Film - Strike up the Band - starring Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and Judy Garland (1922-1969) - a 1940 American black and white musical film produced by the Arthur Freed unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

King Ferdinand of Bulgaria
King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria(1861-1948). Date: circa 1909

SPADs XIII of US 22nd Aero Squadron, operational from August 1918. The machines were shipped back to the USA after the war and used as fighter trainers. Seen here in a snow-covered field

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, US pilot and ace
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973), US pilot and leading fighter ace with 26 confirmed victories, seen here with his Nieuport 28. Date: circa 1918

Ulysses S. Grant - US President and Military Commander
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) - 18th president of the United States (18691877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War. Date: circa 1920s

Milton / Comus / Stars 1634
the Stars That nature hung in Heav n, and fill d their Lamps with everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely Travailer. Date: First published : 1634

Gertrude Lawrence by Autori
Stylised caricature of Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952), British actress and musical comedy performer at the time she was appearing in Private Lives by Noel Coward at the Phoenix Theatre in London

Chief Seattles Grave
The grave of Chief Seattle (Si ahl), (circa 1780-1866) - a DkhwDuwAbsh (Duwamish) chief, also known as Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth. He followed a course of accommodation to white settlers

American sailors in Vladivostok, Russia
The arrival of American sailors from the USS Albany in Vladivostok, Russia, as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. Date: circa 1919

Tearful paper moon sees lover fall from sky
A tearful paper moon sees a womans lover fall from sky as the end of his crescent form breaks off

The Dolly Sisters, Paris, 1924
Photograph showing The Dolly Sisters clad in an feathered outfit at the Palace Theatre, Paris, 1924. Janzieska and Roszieska Deutsch, known simply as Jenny and Rosie Dolly

Andormeda Star Map
Andromeda (Gloria Federici), in chains, plus triangles constellation

Owen Jones Egyptian 11
Various ornaments from Tombs in Thebes, Mummy-cases, Kings Robes and an ancient Tomb in Giza, which was opened by Dr Lepsius

Whittaker Star Maps 11
Including Cygnus, Lacerta and Lyra

Capricorn
The Constellation Capricorn

Portrait of the dancers Myrio and Desha, 1931 who have played Europe and have been at the Roxy Theatre, New York Date: 1931

Music cover, Our Love Affair, Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland
Music cover, Our Love Affair, words and music by Arthur Freed and Roger Edens, from the MGM film Strike Up The Band, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. 1940

Wills Gold Flake advertisement
An eye-catching advertisement by Wills Gold Flake, the All Virginia Cigarette. Date: 1928

The Scott Key Mansion, Washington DC, USA. Home of Francis Scott Key, author of Star Spangled Banner - located at 3518 M Street, N. W. The one-storey annex at the right was his law ofice

Betsy Ross, 1777. Betsy Ross showing Major Ross and Robert Morris how she cut the stars for the American flag; George Washington sits in a chair on the left. Date c1932 July 28

And there were strings of fairies hanging from the stars (I stood against the window). 1922

Whittaker Star Map 24
Including Orion and Lepus

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