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Music Hall Collection (#2)

"Exploring the Vibrant World of Music Hall: A Journey through Europe's Entertainment Hubs" Step into the enchanting world of music hall, where laughter, melodies

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Gertie Milllar portrait 1906

Gertie Milllar portrait 1906
3775488 Gertie Milllar portrait 1906 by Unknown photographer, (20th century); (add.info.: Gertie Milllar portrait 1906 Gaiety Theatre English singer and actress)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall, Winner of the Grand National, 1922 (colour litho)

Music Hall, Winner of the Grand National, 1922 (colour litho)
8660277 Music Hall, Winner of the Grand National, 1922 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Music Hall, Winner of the Grand National, 1922)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Ann Suter (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Ann Suter (colour photo)
8659966 Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Ann Suter (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Ann Suter)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Nellie Wallace (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Nellie Wallace (colour photo)
8659962 Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Nellie Wallace (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Nellie Wallace)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Gwen Farrar (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Gwen Farrar (colour photo)
8659961 Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Gwen Farrar (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Gwen Farrar)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Wish Wynne (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Wish Wynne (colour photo)
8659959 Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Wish Wynne (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Wish Wynne)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: De Groot (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: De Groot (colour photo)
8659953 Music Hall Celebrities: De Groot (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: De Groot)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Bransby Williams (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Bransby Williams (colour photo)
8659948 Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Bransby Williams (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Bransby Williams)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Neil Kenyon (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Neil Kenyon (colour photo)
8659945 Music Hall Celebrities: Neil Kenyon (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Neil Kenyon)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Portrait of actress and cabaret singer Jeanne Bourgeois called Mistinguett (Mistinguette)

Portrait of actress and cabaret singer Jeanne Bourgeois called Mistinguett (Mistinguette) (1873-1956)
AIS5336027 Portrait of actress and cabaret singer Jeanne Bourgeois called Mistinguett (Mistinguette) (1873-1956), 19th century (photo); © Iberfoto

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: France, Ile-de-France, Paris (75): Portrait of Pepee dancer des folies bergeres, 1910

France, Ile-de-France, Paris (75): Portrait of Pepee dancer des folies bergeres, 1910
LUX4726694 France, Ile-de-France, Paris (75): Portrait of Pepee dancer des folies bergeres, 1910; (add.info.: France, Ile-de-France, Paris (75): Portrait of Pepee dancer des folies bergeres

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Art. Entertainment. The incoherent arts. Poster for a parisian exposition, France, c.1890 (poster)

Art. Entertainment. The incoherent arts. Poster for a parisian exposition, France, c.1890 (poster)
3434495 Art. Entertainment. The incoherent arts. Poster for a parisian exposition, France, c.1890 (poster); (add.info.: Art. Spectacle. Exposition des Arts Incoherents a l'Olympia, Paris. Coll)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Art. Entertainment. The shadows, show at the Alcazar d'Ete, Paris. Poster, France, 1874. (poster)

Art. Entertainment. The shadows, show at the Alcazar d'Ete, Paris. Poster, France, 1874. (poster)
3434618 Art. Entertainment. The shadows, show at the Alcazar d'Ete, Paris. Poster, France, 1874. (poster); (add.info.: Art. Spectacle. Coll. Part. Art. Entertainment)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Art. Entertainment. Cancan dancer. Poster by A. Morrow for the magazine: Illustrated Bits

Art. Entertainment. Cancan dancer. Poster by A. Morrow for the magazine: Illustrated Bits, England, c.1890 (poster)
3434536 Art. Entertainment. Cancan dancer. Poster by A. Morrow for the magazine: Illustrated Bits, England, c.1890 (poster); (add.info.: Art. Spectacle. Coll. Part. Art. Entertainment. Cancan dancer)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: New York Radio City Music Hall

New York Radio City Music Hall
Andreas Woernle

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Gracie Fields performing in a music hall, London (b/w photo)

Gracie Fields performing in a music hall, London (b/w photo)
8676192 Gracie Fields performing in a music hall, London (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gracie Fields performing in a music hall, London)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Florrie Forde (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Florrie Forde (colour photo)
8659968 Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Florrie Forde (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Florrie Forde)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Daisy Dormer (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Daisy Dormer (colour photo)
8659967 Music Hall Celebrities: Miss Daisy Dormer (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Miss Daisy Dormer)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Max Wall (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Max Wall (colour photo)
8659960 Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Max Wall (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Max Wall)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Houston Sisters (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Houston Sisters (colour photo)
8659956 Music Hall Celebrities: Houston Sisters (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Houston Sisters)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Stanley Lupino (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Stanley Lupino (colour photo)
8659946 Music Hall Celebrities: Stanley Lupino (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Stanley Lupino)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Dan Leno (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Dan Leno (colour photo)
8659944 Music Hall Celebrities: Dan Leno (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dan Leno)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Mr George Robey (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Mr George Robey (colour photo)
8659938 Music Hall Celebrities: Mr George Robey (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr George Robey)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Art. Entertainment. Clowns. Jacquot Shoe Polish. Poster by Lefevre, France, 1894. (poster)

Art. Entertainment. Clowns. Jacquot Shoe Polish. Poster by Lefevre, France, 1894. (poster)
3434460 Art. Entertainment. Clowns. Jacquot Shoe Polish. Poster by Lefevre, France, 1894. (poster); (add.info.: Art. Spectacle. Coll. Part. Art. Entertainment. Clowns. Jacquot Shoe Polish)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Cabaret audience in the West End, London (b/w photo)

Cabaret audience in the West End, London (b/w photo)
8676188 Cabaret audience in the West End, London (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cabaret audience in the West End, London)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Egbert Bros (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Egbert Bros (colour photo)
8659957 Music Hall Celebrities: Egbert Bros (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Egbert Bros)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Wee Georgie Wood (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Wee Georgie Wood (colour photo)
8659954 Music Hall Celebrities: Wee Georgie Wood (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wee Georgie Wood)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Charles Austin (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Charles Austin (colour photo)
8659950 Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Charles Austin (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Charles Austin)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Sir Harry Lauder (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Sir Harry Lauder (colour photo)
8659941 Music Hall Celebrities: Sir Harry Lauder (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Harry Lauder)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Alfred Lester (colour photo)

Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Alfred Lester (colour photo)
8659940 Music Hall Celebrities: Mr Alfred Lester (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Alfred Lester)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Show in a popular cafe-concert, Paris 19th century. End of the 19th century (chromolithograph)

Show in a popular cafe-concert, Paris 19th century. End of the 19th century (chromolithograph)
ELD4848634 Show in a popular cafe-concert, Paris 19th century. End of the 19th century (chromolithograph); Private Collection; Photo © The Holbarn Archive

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: La Cigale. Vieux le veult, 1900. Creator: Grün, Jules-Alexandre (1868-1938)

La Cigale. Vieux le veult, 1900. Creator: Grün, Jules-Alexandre (1868-1938)
La Cigale. Vieux le veult, 1900. Private Collection

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Folies Bergère. Les Sisters Barrison, 1890s. Creator: Choubrac, Alfred (1853-1902)

Folies Bergère. Les Sisters Barrison, 1890s. Creator: Choubrac, Alfred (1853-1902)
Folies Bergere. Les Sisters Barrison, 1890s. Private Collection

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: 'J'ai deux amours' sung by Josephine Baker, show advertising poster, c.1925 (poster)

"J'ai deux amours" sung by Josephine Baker, show advertising poster, c.1925 (poster)
1718115 "J'ai deux amours" sung by Josephine Baker, show advertising poster, c.1925 (poster) by Zig (Gaudin, Louis) (1900-1936); (add.info.: Show poster: J'ai deux amours)

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music Saloon recently erected at Scarborough, 1858. Creator: Unknown

Music Saloon recently erected at Scarborough, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Music Saloon recently erected at Scarborough, 1858. The Scarborough Cliff Bridge Company have provided an additional attraction to the visitors of that beautiful watering-place by the erection of a

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Inauguration of the Townhall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1858. Creator: Unknown

Inauguration of the Townhall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Inauguration of the Townhall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1858. The inauguration of the new public buildings in Nicholas-square, Newcastle, took place in the beginning of this month

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music-Hall Scene. Creator: Gosta von Hennigs

Music-Hall Scene. Creator: Gosta von Hennigs
Music-Hall Scene, Unknown date

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: The Pantomime at Drury Lane: 'Whittington and his Cat', 1876. Creator: David Henry Friston

The Pantomime at Drury Lane: "Whittington and his Cat", 1876. Creator: David Henry Friston
The Pantomime at Drury Lane: "Whittington and his Cat", 1876. London stage production. The Illustration we give of the Drury Lane pantomime shows at once the group of the Vokes family

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Le Banc des Amateurs, 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier

Le Banc des Amateurs, 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Banc des Amateurs, 1852. Vue prise a l'opera. The Theatre-Lovers Seats. Scene at the opera. Series: Les Parisiens en 1852, no. 3; Periodical: Le Charivari, 15 January 1852

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Le triomphe du sucre d'orge, 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier

Le triomphe du sucre d'orge, 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le triomphe du sucre d'orge, 1855. Vue prise aux Folies nouvelles. (The triumph of barley sugar. - View taken at the new Folies). From Le Charivari, 7 April 1855

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Dans une salle de spectacle, 1854. Creator: Honore Daumier

Dans une salle de spectacle, 1854. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dans une salle de spectacle, 1854. Scene in a theatre. From Paris l'ete, no. 2

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Les Spectateurs de l'orchestre, 1864. Creator: Honore Daumier

Les Spectateurs de l'orchestre, 1864. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Spectateurs de l'orchestre, 1864. Il y a de jolies jambes...tous satisfaits! Audience in the front stalls. There are some lovely legs...everyone's happy

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: The Music-Hall to be erected in 'The Surrey Zoological Gardens', 1856. Creator: Smyth

The Music-Hall to be erected in "The Surrey Zoological Gardens", 1856. Creator: Smyth
The Music-Hall to be erected in "The Surrey Zoological Gardens", [London], 1856. It is proposed to lay out the ground under the superintendence of an eminent landscape surveyor

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: The Music Hall, Smith College, Northampton, c1900. Creator: Unknown

The Music Hall, Smith College, Northampton, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Music Hall, Smith College, Northampton, c1900

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: The Music hall, Manhanset House, Shelter Island, N.Y. between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown

The Music hall, Manhanset House, Shelter Island, N.Y. between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
The Music hall, Manhanset House, Shelter Island, N.Y. between 1900 and 1905

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Washington Park and the music hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, c.between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown

Washington Park and the music hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, c.between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Washington Park and the music hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, c.between 1900 and 1910

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Miss P. Horton's Entertainment, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, Regent-Street, 1856

Miss P. Horton's Entertainment, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, Regent-Street, 1856. Creator: Smyth
Miss P. Horton's Entertainment, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, Regent-Street, [London], 1856. Miss P. Horton's powers of impersonation have never been so skilfully or so fully

Background imageMusic Hall Collection: Music hall, 1888-1889. Creator: Sickert, Walter Richard (1860-1942)

Music hall, 1888-1889. Creator: Sickert, Walter Richard (1860-1942)
Music hall, 1888-1889. Found in the collection of the Musee des Beaux-arts, Rouen




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"Exploring the Vibrant World of Music Hall: A Journey through Europe's Entertainment Hubs" Step into the enchanting world of music hall, where laughter, melodies, and grand performances come alive. From England's West Yorkshire to Germany's Hamburg, this captivating genre has left an indelible mark on European entertainment. In Leeds, England, the iconic Grand Theatre stands tall as a testament to music hall's enduring legacy. Its stage once adorned with posters showcasing thrilling acts at the Argyle Theatre of Varieties in Birkenhead back in 1898. The litho prints transport us to an era filled with anticipation and wonder. Across the North Sea lies Hamburg's HafenCity, home to the magnificent Elbphilharmonie concert hall. This architectural marvel echoes with symphonies that have graced its halls for generations. Just like The Petomane did when his hilarious antics brought joy to Parisian audiences during Le Ventomane. Traveling back in time to 1896 brings us face-to-face with Steinlen's mesmerizing illustration for the reopening of Cabaret du Chat Noir. This bohemian hotspot in Montmartre was a melting pot of creativity and artistic expression. Closer to home is London's Chiswick Empire - a beacon of entertainment during the early 20th century. W. F Seymour captures its allure perfectly through his artistry, transporting us back to jazzy nights filled with laughter and applause. The glamorous Otero takes center stage on a postcard from yesteryears – her beauty captivating audiences across Europe. Meanwhile, Jacques Offenbach’s operetta "The Princess of Trebizonde" enchants listeners with its delightful melodies and whimsical storyline. Venturing further north brings us to Gattias Hungerford Palace of Varieties in Amsterdam—a treasure trove where Katie Lawrence dazzled crowds during her second turn on stage.